Within the Blessed Land Space, stirred by the [Karmic Calamity Dao Seed], the mist surrounding its four reaches churned like ocean tides, rippling with scene after illusory scene.
Hong Yuan gazed intently at them.
He now understood something of Di Shitian's twisted sense of amusement.
This Great Yin-by now, it should have been called the Dao Court World.
The Dao Court World was so cramped that it barely gave him enough room to amuse himself for a year.
By now, the three paths beyond Subtlety-true art, the pill path, and the astral body-lay fully exposed, their strengths and weaknesses clear to him. And as the Dao Transmission Hub operated and academies spread across the prefectures, they would soon be rendered obsolete by the Qi-Blood Furnace Method.
The many secrets of this world had all shed their veils, leaving Hong Yuan free to pick and choose, knead and toy with them as he pleased.
Only the whereabouts of Heavenly Maiden Xi and Emperor Taizu of Yin, Yun Zhao, and the world where the Yu Emperor resided remained mysteries. But to unravel those, he would have to look beyond the heavens.
Without the [Karmic Calamity Dao Seed]'s ability to traverse the void heavens, he would have been trapped in one place, despite possessing a lifespan of centuries or even a millennium. Hong Yuan himself could not guarantee that, given enough time, he would not become another Di Shitian, losing interest in everything in the world and finding amusement only in pulling the strings of the masses and toying with humanity.
That was why the [Karmic Calamity Dao Seed] was so wonderful. He had to make it blossom and bear fruit.
Nurturing the dao seed required karmic calamity power.
Hong Yuan picked through the phantoms bobbing within the Mist Sea, each illusion representing