The glazed Jade Talisman that Ancient Venerable Chi Ji had kept close to her person never lit up again.
Luo God Palace remained silent.
Palace Lord Luo Ling kept her promise. She would act when the Sacred Clan launched a full-scale assault, but their offensives over the past few years had remained at the probing stage, far from a true all-out war.
A subtle understanding gradually formed among the Divine Temple's upper echelons.
No one mentioned the Divine Stone again.
Yet no one had truly forgotten it.
Inside the Quiet Room.
Cang Yuan Grand Sovereign sat cross-legged on a reed mat.
Ten years had passed, and at some point, an azure lotus mark had appeared between his brows.
The three-petaled azure lotus floating above his head was no longer the hazy fledgling form it had been ten years ago.
Its petals were as thin as cicada wings, and ancient Chaos Dao Runes flowed across every one of them.
Those Dao Runes faintly resonated with some supreme law of heaven and earth, and with each resonance, the glow within the lotus core brightened.
The azure lotus had condensed into a complete phantom three feet above his head.
The phantom rotated slowly. With every revolution, Cang Yuan Grand Sovereign's aura surged.
The bottleneck at the peak of Twin Lotus that had trapped him for a thousand years had been completely shattered by the Dao essence of the Azure Lotus Dao Seed two years ago.
Yet he had never taken that final step.
The Three-Lotus Realm emphasized the perfection of laws.
In Tianyuan Realm's Saint system, one lotus comprehended laws, two lotuses fused with heaven and earth, and three lotuses transformed into origin.
Stepping from Twin Lotus into the Three-Lotus Realm meant fusing all one's insights into the laws of heaven and earth