He was trying to become a Sage.
It was unlike Mister You back then, who had cultivated his way to the very threshold and could become a Sage with a single thought.
Or rather, Mister You had not been a true Sage either. He could only be called a True Purity Realm cultivator.
Because he had not wielded a Sage's authority.
At the time, Chenping Continent had possessed no Sage's authority either, only the final wisp left behind by Bai Chen, the Supreme Saint of Imperial Void—authority that had originally belonged to Tianji Continent.
After all, Chenping Continent's heaven and earth were incomplete.
This "Jun Duzhao" was taking an entirely different path.
He was absorbing the traces of a Sage's karma left upon these Sages' remains—or perhaps they should be called "authority."
And through this method, he was attempting to become a Sage.
"..."
Chen Yan quietly watched everything unfolding before him.
He had no way to stop it, nor did he want to.
Chen Yan knew very clearly what he wanted.
Precisely for that reason, even knowing that this so-called True Lord Wuxiang was a fake, he had still cooperated with him to destroy Kunwu Continent's "order."
He had even used Su Hongzhen's pure sword intent to shatter the Heaven and Earth Laws of this domain.
Since "Jun Duzhao" wanted to become a Sage, he would let him.
That was what Chen Yan thought.
The rainbow-hued, gold-lustred "cocoon" seemed to be beating like a heart.
With every beat, the void shuddered.
The threads of karma tangled around the Mysterious Woman Statue seemed to be drawn by something. They surged madly toward the cocoon, winding around it and merging into it to become part of it.
Yet the cocoon underwent no change.
It simply continued to beat.
Chen Yan knew