Dao Source (End of Volume)

"What is it?" Jiang Lin asked, somewhat baffled.

This Heavenly Venerable had suddenly appeared, and there was a strong chance it was related to what Jiang Lin had just experienced.

But why had he stopped speaking halfway through?

"You... haven't noticed?"

The Heavenly Venerable stared fixedly at Jiang Lin's brow. Even his tone had grown cautious, and an emotion Jiang Lin could not comprehend had appeared in his eyes.

Fear, longing, fervor...?

That strange gaze made Jiang Lin's scalp crawl.

"..."

The Heavenly Venerable said nothing more, merely staring at Jiang Lin.

Gradually, he actually fell to his knees and bowed his head. Tears streamed from his eyes, while his heart was filled only with the joy of beholding the ultimate truth of the Great Dao, of having every last confusion resolved.

Jiang Lin froze.

Then he saw a thin red mark on his brow, like a streak of flowing flame.

Lofty was the end of the Immortal Dao; radiant was the culmination of the Divine Path.

Immortals and gods, Dao and laws, the cosmos and heavens, Chaos and Myriad Worlds!

Myriad Phenomena and all that existed encompassed everything, containing all existence and nonexistence, manifesting as the truest principle—boundless and inexhaustible.

It was both the future of all things and the past of all things, impossible to expound, impossible to describe, impossible even to comprehend in any manner.

At last...

Jiang Lin understood as well.

Flowing flames seemed to leap before his eyes, sketching out a red moon in which firewood circulated, elucidating all the truths of the world.

A figure sat cross-legged within the moon.

Infinitely far away, yet seemingly right before him, it simply gazed at him in silence.

"Senior..."

"Do not worry. I merely made some progress."

Merely...

Made some progress?

Chaos Sea.

And not