The Divine Intent Qu Tong obtained was unlike any other Divine Intent.
An Jing noticed that condensing this Divine Intent had not consumed any of his own strength. Rather, the Tianyuan Realm Heavenly Dao had used him to "copy and paste" elements of the Seven Killings Tribulation, extract a portion of them, and place them upon Qu Tong.
It seemed the Tianyuan Heavenly Dao was fairly decent. Instead of draining An Jing's power, it had tried its hand at it personally.
"Do Heavenly Daos have different personalities too?"
An Jing asked Fuxie. Fuxie hesitated for a moment. "Heavenly Daos do indeed possess distinct characteristics due to the differences between worlds. But if you insist on describing them in human terms, as having personalities... that would not be quite right. In truth, they are a kind of aggregate beyond the reach of words. You think the Heavenly Dao exists apart from you, but in reality, both you and I are part of it."
"It is precisely because of this connection that the Heavenly Dao can exist alongside all things."
"Is that so."
An Jing had only sensed the peculiarities of Huaixu and Tianyuan. Yet whether those peculiarities had always existed or had arisen from their contact with Fuxie's fragments, even he did not know.
By now, the group had reached the North Lake Marsh District. Without stopping in the slightest, they headed straight for the underground entrance to the Ancient Immortal Ruins.
The gates of the Taixu Passage stood open before them, the window leading to another world spinning endlessly like a vortex.
Logically, even under An Xuan's identity, using Third Middle School's channels, they could not have gotten through so easily—they would have been inspected, interrogated, registered, and made to sign with Spirit Qi Patterns.
But now, An Jing could