Bloodlight, Double Radiance, and the Sorrowful Spirit Melody (Two-in-One; Please Subscribe!)

Liu Dongqing could clearly feel it.

With Qiongzhi's successful attainment of the Dao—or rather, Dao Lord Shuhua Zhaosheng's—

Near the Illusory Marsh,

the cultivators who harbored much the same thought were willing to risk minor Dao injuries. They wanted to seize this precious window while more prodigies and long-established cultivators still watched from the sidelines, face less competition, and attain Spirit Transformation Dao Lord in one decisive push.

Their minds grew ever more restless.

Building on the tribulations of the two Dao Lords before her, Dao Lord Shuhua Zhaosheng had shown the world a better way to use accumulated fortune.

Moreover,

Dao Lord Shuhua Zhaosheng had not sustained an injury until the final lightning tribulation.

Even then,

the Dao injury to her Divine Embryo at the last moment had been neither obvious nor severe. She had coughed up only one mouthful of mottled Divine Blood; surely, she would recover before long.

Those who had blazed the trail could already achieve this much.

What about those who followed?

Might their injuries be lighter still?

Or perhaps...

Might someone become the first to survive the tribulations unscathed—the first to truly step onto a road open all the way and attain Spirit Transformation Dao Lord in perfect, flawless form amid this Golden Great Era of Dao contention?

What if... what if!

A little inquiry would reveal that, back when Qiongzhi had seized her share, she had taken only a small portion of the first accumulated fortune born as the Yang World revived and the first Ancient Treasure Land returned.

Measured against today's Illusory Marsh, it had been a mere wisp of resources.

Yet it had made Qiongzhi's Human Dao Killing Tribulation and Earthly Dao Killing Tribulation so effortless!

Amid the tide of the age,

no matter the step or the field, claiming first