Meng Qi sat upright inside Jade Purity Hall. Reflected in his eyes was Biyou Palace, where all immortals gathered and all were welcomed into the faith. There, figures crowded together and their auras surged noisily. Only Lingbao Tianzun was absent, with just a few traces remaining, while the great Dao's celestial music echoed without end.
When he had first seen Lingbao Tianzun, Their imprint had not vanished or been replaced. This showed that he was not a product of Their subtracting to seek emptiness, or at least had no direct connection to it. By contrast, whenever he encountered Yuanshi Tianzun's surviving imprint, it immediately dissolved like a dream or bubble and was naturally replaced. This perfectly matched the circumstances of his inheriting Yuanshi Tianzun's title, becoming the Cause of All Fruits of the present age, and being a product of Yuanshi Tianzun's subtracting to seek emptiness.
Yet after he took the place of Yuanshi Tianzun's imprint, Lingbao Tianzun's imprint in that same period of history vanished as well. Combined with his earlier deductions, the answer seemed obvious!
Since he was not directly a product of Lingbao Tianzun's subtracting to seek emptiness, the disappearance of Their imprint was clearly because of Yuanshi Tianzun. The two were linked in some strange way!
Of course, this did not mean Yuanshi Tianzun had fused with or assimilated Lingbao Tianzun. Once they became one, their essences would be identical, and there could be only one self. If he had first seen Lingbao Tianzun, that would likewise have caused the other's imprint to disappear and be replaced.
At that moment, everything he knew about the matter flowed through Meng Qi's mind:
During the battle in which the Heavenly Court fell, Yuanshi Tianzun had faced the Jianmu and sighed, "Matters of the Dao Fruit do not rely