Hum-hum-
Amid the Great One Diagram's joyous spiritual humming, Liu Dongqing felt something rather subtle.
To be honest.
With Ding Ruojun's account of the Bone Sword Lineage ancestor's past, and the groundwork laid by that ancestor's dazzling gifts.
When Liu Dongqing resolved to drain this cup.
He had truly prepared himself to bear an immensely weighty fruit of the Dao within an extremely brief span.
Yet, contrary to his expectations.
When that pool of blazing jade nectar, carrying a complete and perfectly harmonious true resonance of the Dao, appeared out of thin air within the Great One Diagram's origin grounds.
The crushing burden he had imagined never truly materialized.
The jade nectar was indeed as mighty as a torrent, but it remained far below the limit of what Liu Dongqing and the Great One Diagram could bear. If anything, it was like a dao fruit resonance that had been almost wholly complete from the outset, descending directly into Liu Dongqing's intrinsic divine ability fruit.
Its volume was considerable.
But for Liu Dongqing, who had already used his three-thousand-li Blessed-Land Domain to bear not merely one, nor even merely a dozen, complete and perfected Great Accomplishment-level dao fruit resonances.
It was entirely within his capacity to handle with ease.
Indeed.
Even now, Liu Dongqing had ample attention to spare for the many mysteries revealed as that embryonic dao fruit descended into the Great One Diagram's origin grounds and merged with his own body, soul, and Dao.
First came the sudden understanding that followed Liu Dongqing's tense preparations.
Of course.
What the ancestor condensed was an embryonic dao fruit, not the fully nurtured dao fruit summoned down directly from the Void Spirit Land after truly ascending to the Ascendant Profound Realm.
*This [Heaven-Bearing Karma-Slaying] embryonic dao fruit is still only an empty