By the time the events of that day had reached this point,
where he stood,
the fierce, deep-seated killing intent in Liu Dongqing's eyes finally erupted in full for the first time!
It had to be said:
what Hechu Dao Lord had done had profoundly affected Liu Dongqing's cultivation!
And that effect went beyond the Dao Fruit essence of Sexagenary Life-Slaying.
When all was said and done,
it was only a slaughter art. At worst, if its path forward was truly cut off, Liu Dongqing could simply abandon that sword strike. Without Sexagenary Life-Slaying, Mystic Yang Old Devil would still be the imposing, deeply demonic Mystic Yang Old Devil!
But
what Hechu Dao Lord had done threatened the cultivation path of Liu Dongqing's Nascent Soul spirit treasure.
That was the deepest consequence of the day's upheaval!
The Great One Diagram housed twelve Yuanchen bone swords within the Ten-Direction Sword Dao Killing Formation, manifesting the Primal Chaos Sword Prison.
By its very nature, this composite treasure was a supreme spirit treasure aligned with the ten Heavenly Stems above and the twelve Earthly Branches below!
Sexagenary Life-Slaying had not steered the spirit treasure toward the Dao Fruit system of the sixty-year cycle.
In fact,
it was precisely because the spirit treasure naturally accorded with that system that the Dao Fruit essence of Sexagenary Life-Slaying had arisen by a fortunate turn of fate!
That was the true order of things!
He could not change the ten Heavenly Stems within the spirit treasure, nor could he change its twelve Earthly Branches. And so he could not change the irrefutable fact that the treasure resonated with, and pointed toward, the Dao Fruit system of the sixty-year cycle!
Hechu Dao Lord's actions that day seemed to obstruct the Dao Fruit essence of Sexagenary Life-Slaying. What they