Zhishou had always been just as baffled as Hanyu: why him?
Hanyu's resilience was terrifying, and his talent for combat was unmatched. But as Hanyu was always fond of saying, the Central Continent was never short on prodigies.
Why had he been chosen?
Heavenly Dao had explained before that Hanyu had earned everything through his own efforts.
But Zhishou had always wondered: why had the Glazed Bottle chosen Hanyu in the first place?
Heavenly Dao said he hadn't interfered, that the bond between Hanyu and the Glazed Bottle had been a choice made by heaven and earth.
That raised the same question: why had heaven and earth chosen Hanyu instead of some other heaven-favored prodigy?
At that moment, all the questions fell into place.
It turned out that what Heavenly Dao, heaven and earth, and all living beings valued had never been Hanyu's strength, but the reverence in his heart, unchanged from the very beginning.
Everyone needed something to hold in awe. Cultivators were no exception, and neither was Heavenly Dao.
If Heavenly Dao felt no reverence for life, the calamity it could bring upon all living beings would be terrifying.
"So Heavenly Dao never needed a powerful enforcer from the start. It needed you to become the next Heavenly Dao and protect this world!"
So the Central Continent cultivators' wild speculation had actually come true.
Hanyu really had been groomed to become the next Heavenly Dao.
Hanyu remained silent. He had no desire to become Heavenly Dao, but now the Five Elements World was inside him. Perhaps, when the time came, he would have no choice but to grit his teeth, create a world, and then bundle everyone up and take them away.
"And what about now? What are you going to do?"
Zhishou asked Hanyu again.
Hanyu swept