Dressed for Another's Wedding, Then Joining the Current Again

Dao Lord Ji Yun borrowed power from the fortune of life and death.

What, exactly, had he shouted above his Dao field with the last reserves of his Dao arts?

With the Bloodthirsty Medicinal Vine's roots linking them, Liu Dongqing knew every word.

He understood even better why Dao Lord Ji Yun had kept so much to himself—that Liu Dongqing possessed the Ancient Whole-Household Ascension Method, that his reserves of magic power were absurdly deep, and that he had secretly mastered the Innate Eight Trigrams Path as well.

Yet Ji Yun had insisted on burning the last of his mental strength to proclaim to the heavens that Liu Dongqing cultivated the sword path and had become the Myriad Phenomena Sword Sect's "Dao enemy"!

That was because everything else was merely a question of how many Fruits he possessed, or how strong his cultivation and combat power were.

Only the Taibai sword light Liu Dongqing had revealed at the end truly countered—even utterly crushed—the Myriad Phenomena Sword Sect's sword-path Fruits!

That was the sword pressed against the Myriad Phenomena Sword Sect's very lifeline!

As for...

Whether the Myriad Phenomena Sword Sect's sect master would believe Ji Yun's cry, how it would change Liu Dongqing's situation, and what it would ultimately mean for the struggle at the Hanging World Great Wall—

Those thoughts flashed through Liu Dongqing's mind.

Then he pushed them all down.

Those were matters to face after he returned to the Yang World.

Right now,

he had something more important to do.

Caw—

A crow's cry rang out.

At last, guided by its perception of the Seven Emotions and six desires, the Heavenly Fate Mystic Bird surged completely out of the sea of flames and made the transition from illusion to substance.

Beneath the glow of its dark flames,