Cowardice So Abject, Even Its Cries Fell Silent

And at that moment...

What Liu Dongqing sensed was not merely the threat this man posed through the Dao Fruit origins of the sexagenary cycle.

Nor was it merely the greedy desire the man had revealed in that domain.

He thought of Junior Brother Luo of Zhuang Wanqing's Heavenly Heart Dao, whom she had mentioned when teaching him the Nayin Five Elements Secret Scripture.

That man had hoped to complete the Nayin Five Elements first and amass the resources of the sexagenary cycle first.

Then,

somewhere along the future road of immortal cultivation, he would seize Liu Dongqing's Sexagenary Life-Slaying Dao Fruit Resonance—or even the Dao Fruit itself!

He would wrench away the path Liu Dongqing had walked and the fruits of his cultivation just as they were about to ripen!

Was Luo Daoist Heir of the Moral Immortal Sect's Heavenly Heart Dao the only one who harbored such greed?

Had cultivators of the Myriad Phenomena Sword Sect ever entertained similar thoughts?

Did they merely want to block Liu Dongqing's path by cultivating various Dao Fruit Resonances of the sexagenary cycle?

Had they never thought of bringing the astonishing Sword of Time's Passage into their own tradition?

Time flowed; all phenomena arose and perished.

Would that not also transform and perfect the Myriad Phenomena Sword Sect's tradition?

As for the man before him now,

perhaps he had entertained that thought. Perhaps he never had.

But Liu Dongqing had no interest in tracing the course of the man's thoughts.

He looked only at the meaning expressed through the man's Dao arts.

Sexagenary Life-Slaying had first been born when the Great One Diagram, on one hand, interwove the Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches to open the domain of the sexagenary cycle; on the other, it resonated with the Four Symbols Dao and