Entering the Ice Tower

"So, you mean there is no Heavenly Dao, only the Heavenly Emperor?" Chen Fan asked.

The Six-Eared Macaque narrowed his eyes slightly and let out a cold laugh.

"Looks like your last question is quite a long one." The monkey's tone brimmed with mockery, clearly ridiculing Chen Fan for not keeping his word.

Chen Fan shook his head slightly. "You don't have to answer. I really am done asking."

By now, he was certain the monkey's answer would be a nod, confirming that his conjecture was true. The Heavenly Dao no longer existed. The one that had replaced it was the Heavenly Emperor of old.

In other words, immortals and devils alike had perished, leaving only the Heavenly Emperor as the sole immortal.

"That's right. Everything now is being manipulated by the Heavenly Emperor from behind the scenes. If you still want to ask what happened back then, I can't tell you any more either, because even I don't know." At that moment, the monkey suddenly spoke, answering Chen Fan with remarkable bluntness.

Chen Fan nodded calmly. This further verified his suspicions.

Now that it had been confirmed that the present Heavenly Dao was the Heavenly Emperor, everything became clear.

The true Heavenly Dao of old had not been so overbearing, nor had it directly interfered in mortal affairs. It had merely established the laws of birth, aging, sickness, and death; it had set the cycle of spring, summer, autumn, and winter upon the human world. It was itself inseparably bound to all life.

Yet at some unknown point, everything changed. The Heavenly Dao had built this ruin in the first place only to use humanoid lightning to curb the number of cultivators, not to wipe them out entirely. But after the great war between immortals and devils erupted, even