791. Young Master

After Tianyan and Tianye departed, Xu Yuan came alone to the peak of the shattered Heaven Gate Mountain. Sitting at the cliff's edge, he stared blankly at the sun slowly rising in the distance.

He did not know whether the Heavenly Oversight Pavilion's ideals were correct, but after turning them over in his mind again and again, they did not seem particularly wrong.

Because the gulf between one person and another was truly greater than the gulf between a person and a dog.

The chill atop the mountain turned the warm breath from his lips into white mist that vanished in an instant. Xu Yuan found himself rather ridiculous. He had clearly made up his mind before setting out, yet now, because of the truth Tianye had told him, he had fallen into hesitation once more.

The destruction of the old order did not signify an end. How to establish a new order was the true beginning.

The path Tianye had described had already been practiced by the Heavenly Oversight Pavilion for countless years, while the road Xu Yuan wished to take remained shrouded in uncertainty.

The future he wanted—

Could it truly replace the old order established by Heavenly Will?

The current imperial realm was indeed riddled with flaws, yet order still overwhelmingly prevailed. But that order was maintained jointly by human-made formations and Heavenly Will.

The formations restrained the Saints.

The Saints kept one another in check.

Then Heavenly Will prevented the Saints from taking another step upward, forming a closed loop.

Heavenly Will's extreme approach—preferring to slaughter hundreds of millions by mistake rather than let a single one escape—was revolting, but it had its reasons.

Human nature could not be trusted.

In this era, the people blessed with peerless talent were his father, Li Yaoxuan, and those