"Now, never mind you—even if I intervened, I would only be throwing my life away.
These are merely His emissaries. Once they are defeated, He will act in person.
I am not strong enough yet, and Fuzi alone has little certainty of success.
We are both gathering strength in secret, hoping that one day we will have the power to wage war against Heaven.
Jing Tao... what a pity to lose such an outstanding hero. Fuzi and I had hoped that one day he would become our comrade and fight Heaven alongside us.
Perhaps this is for the best. It will serve as a warning to you."
"Yes, Teacher/Patriarch!"
Xiao Nan and the others had thought their teacher/patriarch cherished her own life and feared death. It turned out she had greater plans and was gathering the strength to defy Heaven.
Afterward, they found their teacher/patriarch standing alone on the cliff at the Back Mountain, silent for an entire day and night. She stood there for a long, long time. They wanted to approach her, but could not.
They knew that their teacher deeply regretted Jing Tao's loss as well.
After that day and night, Red Dust announced that she was entering seclusion. Clearly, witnessing the power of Heavenly Punishment had left her unable to wait any longer.
With her full strength, she could have annihilated the forces of Heavenly Punishment, including the Golden Divine Dragon and the several seventh-realm divine generals, even if a few more had joined them.
But she would have been wounded, and these were merely an insignificant fraction of the forces under Haotian.
If she were discovered, never mind Haotian—she might not even survive the divine generals of the Divine Kingdom.
Already in the middle of the seventh realm, she spent a hundred years reaching its