All things fell silent.
The Heaven-Stabilizing Continent's True Purity Realm Sage, unmatched in all ages.
Over the past forty million years, countless people had believed that, had Heavenly Monarch Qingluo not come to the Heaven-Stabilizing Continent that day forty million years ago to debate the Dao with Yin Ji and damage his Dao heart...
Perhaps, in another world, the Heaven-Stabilizing Sage might have become more than merely the Heaven-Stabilizing Sage.
He might have become the Heaven-Stabilizing Heavenly Monarch.
But that was only another possibility.
Now, the young man standing in the wasteland wore gray-white Daoist robes, and faint golden light flickered in his eyes, seemingly on the verge of going out.
The sea of fire that had spread across ten million miles of sky a moment earlier had now vanished completely, as though it had been an illusion.
Only the melted, distorted rocks on the ground bore witness to what Yu Li, the Southern Bright Sage, had done moments before.
Looking at the gray-white figure standing in the wasteland with an indifferent expression, Yu Li's gaze grew firmer and more resolute.
Utterly pure, utterly yang—everything his blazing fire had burned converged toward the Southern Bright Sage.
The Heaven and Earth Laws dismantled by the flames, the scorched remnants of karma, and the vaporized Immortal Dao Echo all gathered in his palm.
Like countless tiny fragments of fading starlight, they spun, compressed, and condensed, finally forming a pearl.
It was crimson throughout, with countless cracks spreading across its already irregular surface. Deep within those cracks, dark golden flames seemed to breathe.
Rather than a pearl, it looked more like a beating heart.
Upon seeing the crimson "heart" in the Southern Bright Sage's hand, Yin Ji's expression remained unchanged, but his eyes seemed to hold a little more interest than before.
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