"Patient and enduring, unmoving as the earth..."
Gu Daotian murmured. At this moment, immense joy filled his spiritual world.
Though the transformation within him had only just begun, this was the crucial step from nothing to something. Once he crossed it, he could feel that the road ahead of him was as vast as the sky.
Of course, he also knew that he would have no chance to keep walking forward—not only because of the hurdle that was Zhao Cheng before him, but more importantly, because of the divine lightning that would soon arrive.
The Daoists had not concealed the matter of the divine lightning from him. Nor could they possibly have hidden it from him.
The entire plan had been open and candid from the start. The Daoists had known he would not refuse, even if the price was death.
Such was the nature of obsessives. To them, the thing they were obsessed with stood above everything else, including life itself.
And as his martial arts broke past their limits and reached beyond True Astral Force, attaining the unprecedented realm of Divine Transformation he had once envisioned, the transformation of his flesh had only just begun, but the qualitative change in his spiritual world was already complete.
Unlike the various Hearts of Heaven cultivated by the Daoists, he had used martial arts to reach the divine. What he had achieved was the Heart of Earth. That phrase—patient and enduring, unmoving as the earth—was the truest portrayal of him.
Once this state of mind was formed, he would stand unmoving upon the ten grounds, never to regress.
From then on, no matter how the years flowed by, whether in spirit or physical strength, he would remain forever fixed at his absolute peak until the day his lifespan ran out.
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