Eastern Emperor Taiyi also stopped walking. He raised his head and looked into the distance, his gaze somewhat complicated.
Demon Star Dragon opened his mouth as if to ask something, but held himself back.
"Demon Star Dragon, my resurrection this time was also because I was unwilling to accept it—unwilling to have failed so completely back then. But after returning to life, I realized that what I wanted was no longer any of that."
Eastern Emperor Taiyi stood with his hands behind his back, gazing into the distance.
"What does Your Highness want, then?" Demon Star Dragon asked.
Eastern Emperor Taiyi paused before answering, "What I want... is peace and stability throughout the Three Realms."
Demon Star Dragon froze for a moment, then recalled the past—the era of the Ancient Heavenly Court.
Back then, they had founded the Heavenly Court precisely to pacify the Three Realms, to unite them under the Heavenly Court and stabilize them.
After all, Dongfang Taiyi had once been fellow disciples with Nuwa and the great god Pangu. Pangu had created heaven and earth, Nuwa had created all living beings, while he, Eastern Emperor Taiyi, was meant to unite and stabilize the Three Realms.
Yet because of his own mistakes and the schemes of others, that plan had fallen through. He had failed to unite the Three Realms, much less stabilize them.
Instead, he had allowed others to take advantage of the situation. After his death, those people had plotted and fought against one another for all these years, severely draining the Three Realms and sending them down the road to destruction.
In truth, he bore responsibility for this as well. The Deva Path had originally entrusted him with governing the Three Realms, yet he had failed to do so properly. Otherwise, things would not have