Given the impact of the coming divine war, Shi Lan spent several days weighing the matter before summoning Kuang Shaoqing and asking him to organize the human experts and venture out to shelter the people of the Four Regions.
Once the Demigod Race went to war, all of Lingyang would be engulfed in flames. This might be her chance to unite Lingyang's human race once and for all.
It was far better for Kuang Shaoqing to handle this than for Shi Lan to appear in person. At the same time, she wanted to use the opportunity to see whether she could find that Emperor Wanggu.
Later generations had praised and condemned this emperor in equal measure. Shi Lan knew him only through scattered records, but as a figure who had shaped the course of history, he was naturally someone she wanted to meet.
After arranging all the miscellaneous affairs, Shi Lan began another period of seclusion.
Her last meeting with the Divine King had not been fruitless. With the Holy Demon Eye, she could now see the path leading into the domain of spacetime. Though it remained visible yet out of reach, at least she now had a goal.
She had also kept the Divine King's words firmly in mind. The key to entering the tenth rank lay in the laws of spacetime. Without a Dao Fruit, one could not bring forth a Dao Flower; without one, one could not enter the River of Time, condense avatars in the past and future, and leave one's mark.
If living beings were like people crossing a vast ocean, then avatars were like floating islands where they could rest. Without the support of these avatars, living beings could never cross the River of Time and reach the other shore.
Shi Lan now had