Primordial Heavenly Venerate's words fell like a heavy hammer, striking Sage Taiqing's Dao heart again and again.
Although he remained seated with his eyes lowered, as if deep in meditation,
the Taiji Diagram slowly revolving before Sage Taiqing had subtly changed. The paths traced by its Yin-Yang Fish had shifted almost imperceptibly.
Their flowing, perfectly rounded motions now showed a faint, barely noticeable trace of stiffness and disorder.
The Great Desolation Scene reflected within the diagram—the blazing pillar of destiny representing the Interception Sect—became, in Laozi's eyes, the Myriad Immortals Phenomenon on Golden Ao Island, a sight that filled him with unease.
Sage Taiqing's Dao heart was like a mirror, reflecting all things.
Every word Primordial Heavenly Venerate had spoken was a needle, piercing the worry in his heart!
"The Chan Sect's Dao lineage is difficult to sustain, and the Investiture of the Gods Scroll is hard to fill... Those words are true. The Yuxu Disciples are indeed inadequate to face the tribulation."
In silence, the figures of Guangchengzi, Immortal Elder Nanji, and the others surfaced one by one in the mirror lake of his Dao heart.
"The Interception Sect is powerful... The Star Immortal Dao regulates the celestial bodies, the Rune Immortal Dao benefits all spirits, and its destiny gathers like a flood... It has indeed begun to surpass the other sects."
An exceedingly subtle ripple spread across Sage Taiqing's heart lake.
As the Mystic Gate Senior Brother, he naturally pursued the Great Dao, but the destiny of a Dao lineage was the foundation that carried it.
The Interception Sect's expansion had invisibly touched the boundary of some kind of balance.
Qingxuanzi... His brilliance is too dazzling!
"Hunyuan Limitless..."
At the thought of those four words, the fingers gripping Sage Taiqing's horsetail whisk tightened ever so slightly, beyond his