-- Incarnating as the Heavenly Dao.
An Jing was not surprised in the slightest. He had seen it long ago: Heavenly Fate was the Heavenly Dao's hired hand. But if the Heavenly Dao itself was also a complete mess, then Heavenly Fate was likely the one left holding the bag.
But the same old saying applied—some people did not want to shoulder the burden from above, while others wanted to shoulder it but were not even given the chance!
The Da Chen Imperial Dynasty was clearly one of those who wanted to shoulder it. Just as An Jing himself had deduced, every Heavenly Fate contained a portion of the Heavenly Dao's authority. When multiple Heavenly Fates combined, they contained "the fundamental essence of the Great Dao that the Huaixu Heavenly Dao refused to let all Lingxiao understand."
That was the key to [Above Lingxiao, Return to Void Dao One].
The ambition of the Da Chen Imperial Dynasty lay here—or rather, the ambition of every Heavenly Sect in this world was to achieve that goal.
To become... [Above Lingxiao].
At that thought, An Jing let out a breath. He raised his eyes and calmly regarded the half-real, half-illusory crimson figure before him.
"What exactly happened back then?"
He asked.
Xuan Guangyun's bloody shadow swayed faintly in the scorching wind. He gave a long sigh. "It is a long story, and I fear I must begin with the founding of my Da Chen Imperial Dynasty. But you must already know some of that, so I will not belabor it."
His voice carried boundless exhaustion. "In short, after the Sacred Progenitor, the successive Xuantian Emperor Lords were either overly cautious or deliberately altered the records. By our generation, we no longer knew the origins of the Heaven-Answering Undying Tree. We believed it to