[Divine One—or rather, Chi Shenshu.]
At this moment, a vast yet gentle voice rang out in Chi Shenshu's heart.
The Ancestral Dragon's voice carried layer upon layer of echoes, as though transmitted from endless time and space: [Across infinite parallel spacetime, the likelihood of you doing evil is seven or eight out of ten. But in the remaining two or three, you can cast aside the Heavenly Demons' seduction, persist in cultivating the most orthodox Blood Sea Great Dao, and ultimately offer yourself as a sacrifice to forge the 'Heaven-Mending Bloodstone,' restoring a portion of vitality to the Heavenly Dao.]
[Before infinity, before me, so long as you intend to fall even once, it is an infinite fall.]
[Likewise, before Dao Union, before me, so long as you uphold the righteous path even once, it is an infinite persistence.]
The Ancestral Dragon's voice held neither joy nor anger, merely stating an established fact that spanned infinite parallel spacetime: [Master of Crimson Evolution Divine One, Chi Shenshu, you have rendered merit.]
[Therefore, I shall give you an opportunity.]
It slowly raised its left claw. Upon that colossal dragon claw, time flowed and turned, eventually condensing into a speck of violet-blue divine radiance.
That was the Ancestral Dragon Scale. It was what the Divine One Cult Leader, the Blood Sea Demonic Sect, even the Heavenly Mother Palace, Lianzhen Dao, the Da Chen Imperial Dynasty, the Heavenly Demons, and all other factions had schemed tirelessly to obtain, willing to unleash a sky-shaking great calamity for...
A scale.
[Eat.]
The Ancestral Dragon said calmly: [Since all your degeneration and all your struggles were for the sake of obtaining my scale, then eat it. 'Devouring Heaven and Earth, all things return to me'—circulate this path that transcends the ultimate realm, and swallow it.]
The Divine