Day Ninety-Seven.
Tai made his move again, battling Tian.
Gu had intended to seize the chance to snatch the Original Intent, but Xuan stopped him, leaving him no choice but to abandon the attempt.
Meanwhile, the Truth Insight experts of every race, seeing Tian tied down by Tai, began to stir as well, edging toward the Eastern Wasteland Region and the Heaven Domain.
Heaven Domain, Academy of Myriad Races.
A cluster of palaces above the clouds.
Deep within.
Inside a sealed chamber with no exits on any of its four walls.
Hazy light and shadows flowed.
Every wall of the chamber seemed overlaid with countless afterimages, neither illusory nor real, seemingly true yet seemingly false.
An indescribable Dao aura circulated.
A handsome, elegant man in azure robes sat within, his body free of any afterimage, clear and distinct.
Hong!
Like a point of reality within an illusion, transcendent and unworldly.
All Myriad Phenomena are illusory; only I alone am real.
All laws are dreams; one heart alone is true.
The reality and illusion, truth and falsehood of the universe itself seemed to rest upon a single thought of his.
At this moment, his aura had transformed and ascended to an unfathomable extent. Even a being at the Truth Insight level would be tainted by the circulating Dao aura upon entering this place, losing their own "reality."
As though...
He was truly about to attain Dao?
The "anchor"—or perhaps "seed"—hidden in the unseen and concealed within the infinitesimal began to stir, intending to seize his essence at the instant he truly transformed.
Those who attain Dao stood beyond worldly things and possessed boundless might. Even if an "anchor" had been planted in advance, there would only be an instant of opportunity!
Of course, for a great existence who had likewise attained