"A puppet!"
The moment battle erupted in Eastern Yi, Lin Meng and all her clones at the heart of the storm stared at the Yin-Yang Fish Diagram beneath Li Xiang's feet.
Their feelings were complicated as they faced Li Xiang. From the moment they were born after Li Yaowen's reincarnation, the ancestor had undoubtedly been the most special presence in Li Yaowen's memories, and had become a special presence in the hearts of all her clones as well.
Even they had never imagined that the Heavenly Dao's hidden trump card would be Li Xiang, who had been cast down into the mortal world!
The sixteen clones began using the Third-Layer Fate Arts they had cultivated over ten thousand years, and saw everything that had happened to Li Xiang above the heavens during that time. Li Xiang had lost, utterly and completely. The Heavenly Dao Prophet's attack on him from beyond the universe had taken over the entire world.
They also understood why Li Xiang had not completely exterminated the Heavenly Dao Prophet during the previous Endless Night. It was not that he had been unwilling, but that he had been unable.
The Heavenly Dao... the Heavenly Dao! The moment they became the Heavenly Dao, their bodies had become part of the world. Both the Heavenly Dao Prophet's consciousness and Li Xiang's body and soul were bound to the entire Immortal Realm. Unless the Immortal Realm shattered completely within the universe, or they were devoured by another world's consciousness, their bodies could never be utterly destroyed, and their souls and consciousness would endure forever!
This had also turned Li Xiang's body into the Heavenly Dao's "mortal vessel." The entire Immortal Realm possessed two consciousnesses, one belonging to the Heavenly Dao and the other to Li Xiang. Whatever happened to them, as