If you had kept all the Dao Source Essence, perhaps the improvement would have surpassed what you gained now. But it could not be viewed that simply. Had you done so, not only would you have lacked a better way to deal with the monsters back then, but upon closer thought, the energy you first obtained from the leaves differed somewhat from the portion left behind after you used the eye technique.
Rather than saying these were left behind after the Supreme Eight Extremes were unleashed, it was more accurate to say that after this energy entered your Double Pupils, your eyes had quietly skimmed some off. Even when the eye technique was used, it had not released that portion as energy, instead retaining it to strengthen itself.
Thus, even if you had truly chosen not to use the eye technique, the results might have been better than now, but they could not have been several times better—at most, a little over twice as good. May your Origin Crystal be filled to perfection.
However, you did not excessively romanticize that future which had never come to pass. The current outcome was already far better than what you had planned after receiving your Lifebound omen. Only by resolving the calamity could you have more time to cultivate in peace.
Though that peace was relative. Over these hundred thousand-plus years, just as you had expected, Moro had never given up on you. While he had done nothing openly, he had constantly sought to infiltrate Qingming Hetong Heaven in secret.
This action alone showed that he truly bore no small killing intent toward you. Even if he could not find an opportunity to strangle you in the cradle, he might strike when you broke through. Moreover, you could foresee that his determination to