Doubt

As innate Dao Attainers of the Great Profound Realm, He, Gu, and Tai had each been given one chance to steal the Taixuan Authority and turn the power of the Great Profound Realm to their own use.

That had been the case several years ago.

He had laid his plans in advance, setting down "Origin-Returning Dao Anchors" throughout the Heavens and Myriad Worlds of the Chaotic Sea. Then, through that opportunity to steal the Taixuan Authority, He had expelled the four Human Race True Immortals—the Sword Ancestor, the Sword Venerable, Yuanjun, and the Hong Sovereign—from the Great Profound Realm in one stroke.

At the time, Tai's cultivation had been inferior to His, so perhaps Tai had been unable to achieve such a thing.

But given the profundity of the Taixuan Authority, if Tai had used it, he should at least have been able to carve out a sliver of hope for survival amid the siege of the Human Race True Immortals.

Yet until his death, He had never seen Tai use it.

Had Tai used it elsewhere?

Or perhaps...

Tai had already used it, and He simply had not noticed!

At that thought, an inscrutable glint flickered through Xuan's eyes.

He raised a hand, grasped the light of tribulation lightning before him, and put it away. Then he lay down by the lakeside, folding his hands beneath his head.

But that still did not quite make sense.

If Tai had truly survived by stealing the Taixuan Authority, why would he hide from Him and Gu?

Back then, He and Gu had indeed had some conflicts, but those contradictions had gradually eased beneath the growing threat of the Human Race.

He remembered that Tai and Gu had reconciled in the end!

And more importantly, even if Tai had not yet completely