"All right, you may leave. I want to be alone for a while."
"Yes!"
After everyone left, Red Dust gazed at the gravestone and sighed. That single breath held all her helplessness, sorrow, and joy.
"Brother, oh, Brother. How could you be so foolish?"
She knew she could not blame Fuzi, but a rift had opened in her heart toward him all the same.
After everything that had happened, Red Dust found it easier to let go of worldly concerns.
She quietly left the Imperial Palace alone. Before long, word spread across the realm that a sword had flown to Xiling and pinned its current headmaster to his divine seat, leaving him dead in a gruesome fashion.
At the same time, the rare treasures Xiling had collected over the years vanished without a trace.
Deep in the East Sea, Red Dust arrived by boat at a solitary island.
Heaven Demon, Extinction, Boundless, and Distance-Free were realms she would not pursue as her main path, but she would not cast them aside, either.
Each had been conceived through insight and was a crystallization of her predecessors' wisdom.
One could grasp the distribution of Yuan Qi between heaven and earth and move freely among its concentrations, achieving instantaneous travel.
One could absorb the Yuan Qi of heaven and earth and turn it into attacks or defenses.
One could halt the flow of Yuan Qi in the surrounding area.
One could absorb and use Yuan Qi to its utmost, forming a shield around the body and tempering the flesh until it became like jade and wounds no longer bled.
All of these were merely different ways to use the Yuan Qi of heaven and earth after reaching the same level of power in this world.
In the end, each founder had gained insight