The Heavenly Dao Prophet spread his arms within the black mist, speaking the gentlest words, painting the most perfect vision in the world.
Had there been no chaotic world of flesh and blood, no viscous liquid dripping onto that flesh with a "drip, drip," no lingering resonance of the Great Dao, nor the blood from Li Kuanghua's, Li Zhiheng's, and Li Jianning's wounds and their pale faces...
Perhaps this truly would have been the beautiful story the Heavenly Dao Prophet described.
In the sky.
The roots of the Delusion-Breaking Divine Tree extended from space. Members of the Azure Cloud Li Family stood on their tips, gazing down at the world of flesh and blood with complicated expressions.
The Heavenly Dao—
The existence they had pursued for over a thousand years had appeared before them in this manner, through their attempts to find their ancestor's remains. Even Li Yaowen had not anticipated this outcome.
[Give up on me. Never attempt to touch the Heavenly Dao.]
Their ancestor's final letter, the one filled with writing that had all been crossed out, leaving only those terrifying words, instantly surfaced in their minds again.
Perhaps their ancestor, who had already mastered the [Causality Law], had sensed something even then.
Within the world of flesh and blood, the Heavenly Dao Prophet looked down upon everyone in the Li Family, as well as Daochu and Wanrong concealed in the void, with a gaze that regarded all living people as nothing.
He smiled.
"It is useless. In this world, I am an eternal, undying existence. You have always been part of my body."
The Heavenly Dao Prophet's words changed the expressions of everyone in the sky.
For as his words fell, the heavens over the entire Eastern Yi became clearer than ever before. At that moment, they