The lotus seed world's destruction was like a bubble bursting.
But it was not truly just a bubble.
The saints had suppressed Calamity Water with Gaishi Supernatural Powers and nurtured lotus fruit. The thousands upon thousands of lotus seeds within this evil lotus world had once each been a vibrant, living real world.
To see a real world abruptly perish before their eyes inevitably stirred a measure of alarm. The Prodigies present were all still young; they could not simply regard it as nothing.
Everyone looked at Dou Zhao.
"What are you looking at?" Dou Zhao said irritably. "It had nothing to do with me! I didn't even step on it before it broke apart!"
What had happened inside?
Had the living beings of that world brought disaster upon themselves? Or had someone explored this lotus seed world and triggered some unfathomable change?
There was no way to know.
Zhu Weiwu sighed. "If a Transcendent being pressed Calamity Water flat with a single palm at this moment, we would be just like the living beings in that lotus seed world—gone before we even knew anything had happened... In the great myriad worlds, where is there anything that is not an illusionary bubble?"
"That is why we seek truth," Jiang Wang said.
Ji Li held Xue Tanhua in her arms and merely said, "Let's go."
The clue Ning Shuangrong had obtained was left behind by a Sword Pavilion cultivator from over three thousand nine hundred years ago. He had been the personal disciple of the Pavilion Lord at the time, Guan Changqing, the sect's foremost disciple—a peerless genius. A peak True Insight cultivator and the foremost swordsman beneath heaven, he had entered Calamity Water to explore it, only to vanish without a trace.
Calamity Water was simply too vast. Even now,