The Heavenly Dao's Trial

In the void, everyone looked at one another.

They could not help but stare in stunned disbelief.

Since the great expedition from the Immortal Realm, they had only encountered one Sovereign—the Stone Serpent Sovereign before them. Well, that nameless heart should count as one too.

But they had never seen a Sovereign from their own realm—fortunately, they had not.

Who would have thought that when they finally had the chance to encounter one, it would be a dead one?

Gongsun Die asked curiously, "How do you know?"

"Because his divine spirit remains here. The Dao laws within this Dao artifact were transformed from his divine spirit," Ning Ye replied.

The proof of Dao lay in the divine spirit.

After a Sovereign died, if a wisp of divine spirit remained undying, its Dao laws would manifest, forming the superlative Dao-law artifact before them.

In a sense, this could already be considered a treasure on the level of creating heaven and earth.

Ning Ye knew not because he had seen through it, but because only divine sense of this level could sever the connection between him and his avatar.

"The Sovereign... is dead..." everyone murmured in astonishment.

"How could that be?" Feng Xianlong said. "A Sovereign should already be the ultimate end of the path of cultivation, shouldn't it? Shouldn't they remain indestructible for ten thousand years?"

The Ninth Realm was merely an aspiration, one no one had ever attained. The Eighth Realm, the Lord of the Great Dao, was the ultimate end—this had long been everyone's common understanding.

Even Saints could remain undying for ten thousand years. How could a Sovereign be gone?

It was impossible to understand.

Yet Ning Ye said, "Indestructible for ten thousand years does not mean indestructible for a million. Sovereigns are not eternal either. If we