The sixteen Sacred Sovereigns ascended onward, and with their ascension came the path to becoming Dominators.
The aura around them grew ever more powerful, and their Dao paths ever clearer.
In that instant, many understood something—realized something.
Yet the sorrow in their hearts only deepened, joined by endless desolation and loneliness.
Their Dao realms continued to rise. Though they had only just become Dominators, at this moment they seemed to be climbing endlessly upward. Chaotic energy flooded madly into them, as though it would burst them apart.
Only when they could bear it no longer did it finally stop. Then they saw a figure seated above the void.
It was Ye.
The boundless breath of chaos poured into Ye's body like water into a bottomless abyss, vanishing without end.
At this moment, even the expanse of the Chaotic Domain shrank considerably.
"Ning Ye!" Chi Wanning cried tremulously.
Ye raised his head slightly. "I am Ye, not Ning Ye!"
This time, Chi Wanning did not argue.
She stopped in her tracks. "Yes, you are Ye, not Ning! With Shu, there is no Ning! She is here; you are not!"
Ye smiled. "But he will return in the end."
Gongsun Die said, "Then at the very least, you're half a husband, aren't you?"
Ye considered it, nodded, then shook his head.
He said, "Half means nothing. You must go find Ning!"
"Where?" Chi Wanning asked.
Linlang Tian asked as well, "At Shu Wuning's?"
Ye shook his head. "She is mine, but she is only a weapon, not the root. Only by going to the root can everything be resolved."
Langya Sacred Sovereign sighed. "Are you sure that is the outcome we are hoping for?"
This time, Ye fell silent.
He pondered for a long while before finally saying, "No, I don't know...