Li Jianshu had a very brief dream.
Like all immortals, he did not know where he came from. From the bewildering darkness, he grasped the lightning born of the Heavenly Dao's wrath and became a part of the world, a tool of the Heavenly Dao.
In this dream, he could only draw blindly upon all the power bestowed by the Heavenly Dao, obeying its commands in ignorance and expending every last bit of strength in an attempt to destroy an enemy as insignificant as an ant beneath the Heavenly Dao—
His ancestor.
Perhaps he was the only one in the Lineage who knew just how terrifyingly powerful his ancestor, who possessed every Great Dao in the world after breaking through to Mahayana, truly was.
Because in that dream, he could clearly feel that after reaching Mahayana, his ancestor was contending for the Heavenly Dao's authority!
He became [Divine Punishment], his immortal body spread throughout the entire world. Looking down upon the mortal realm through his own eyes, he could clearly sense a silver thread appearing on every existence at or above the Heavenly Immortal level in the world—every Heavenly Immortal his ancestor had encountered during that ten-thousand-year journey.
These were Fate Arts that the Literary Ancestor had only mastered upon entering the third stage of a fate master, the "celestial human" form.
Li Jianshu had reason to believe that perhaps his ancestor had already successfully cultivated [Causality Law] at that time, attaining its Dao the moment he broke through to Mahayana.
Perhaps his ancestor's journey had not been aimless.
Otherwise, why would every immortal in the world have bestowed their authority over "laws" upon his ancestor when [Causality Law] appeared?
With the world's power pouring into his ancestor's body like that,
Even [Divine Punishment], a progenitor-level Heavenly Immortal born of