He had spent a long lifetime, gazing through time and chaos, waiting for today and the future!
The Thirteen Ancient Sages narrowed their eyes. In their struggle against the Heavenly Dao, they were all-knowing and all-powerful, playing a game of chess with it upon this world. Now, they seemed to have glimpsed a flaw in the game. Had the Heavenly Dao truly remained unmoved all these countless years, just as they claimed? Had it really failed to notice any of their arrangements?
It seemed that, like the Heavenly Dao, they did not know whether all their actions had changed the past, or whether those actions had followed a predetermined course, bringing about "today."
They had used the members of the Azure Cloud Li Family as chess pieces to build a cage for the Heavenly Dao—but could that not have been precisely the outcome it wanted?
"No, no!"
The Rotten Axe Elder was divining the outcome. No matter how this ancient powerhouse, who could see through the River of Time, calculated it, the Heavenly Dao's destruction was inevitable. Opening a passage from the mortal world to the universe was within reach. It was an excellent outcome, yet fine beads of sweat still covered him.
For he was gazing at the Heavenly Dao through the chaos, and the Heavenly Dao was... smiling, beyond all the coldness and numbness he had ever sensed from it before.
"All for today? All for their today? Hahahaha!!!"
A peal of laughter rang out from the chaos—Zhang Baijie's bleak laughter.
He gripped his sword and shield more tightly, staring at Li Xiang with something close to hatred. "So it was all a lie. When heaven and earth first opened, you established the Immortal Court for us, saying you wanted all living beings to coexist in peace. Everything