"Moral Heavenly Venerable..."
On the city wall, Laozi sprang to his feet, his body swaying.
He stared fixedly toward Mars, where interwoven imperial might soared into the heavens. One of those auras shared his very origin, as though they were bound by blood.
He recognized it.
It was the aura of the Moral Heavenly Venerable.
I knew it. If he could come back once, he could come back twice! Laozi grumbled inwardly through gritted teeth.
That old Daoist bastard was damned hard to kill!
He kept coming back, death after death. Hadn't he agreed to leave his body to me?
Why had he popped out from beneath the Sea Eye now?
And his aura was even more terrifying than at his peak as a Heavenly Venerable!
What made his scalp prickle even more was the sheer variety of auras beneath the abyss.
From the fragments of memory left in this body alone, he recognized the Lingbao Heavenly Venerable, the Immeasurable Heavenly Venerable, and the Primordial Heavenly Venerable—all Heavenly Venerables who had reigned together in the Ancient Heavenly Court.
Just then, a dazzling streak of golden light extended from the depths of the universe.
Great Emperor Nuwa arrived upon the golden light. Her supreme imperial might descended, stabilizing the Emperor Array.
"Greetings, Great Emperor!"
Laozi looked up at the figure shrouded in Five-Colored Divine Light and relaxed a little. With the reigning Great Emperor overseeing matters, Hangu Pass and the Prehistoric Ancient Star would surely be safe.
The Sea Eye battlefield.
Beneath the Fluorescent Ancient Star lay a junction of the Path to Immortality from the Primordial Era.
When the Path to Immortality opened here all those years ago, it had drawn several Supreme Beings out of the forbidden zones. In the end, the Undying Heavenly Emperor had lured them all