The battle had reached this stage.
Liu Dongqing had also come to almost completely believe a very ancient rumor—
In the primordial ages, the Supreme Origin Immortal Sect and the South Flower Dao Sect had likely been a single flourishing great sect, like the Blackwater Heavenly River Dao Sect of the North Sea!
They were not simply two different lineages that touched upon body and soul, evolving alongside one another through the passage of time and happening to complement each other.
This was clearly the same Dao method being split apart over the ages!
Were they not branches of the same lineage originating from one source—
The harmonious union of body and soul might perhaps have been achieved with ease.
But—
It absolutely would not have allowed the Awakened Spirit, Illuminating Essence Dao Lord, the very instant he attained the Southern Splendor Yang Spirit, to possess so many auxiliary Dao secret arts for use!
Nor would it have allowed the vast and intricate Dao rhythm possessed by the Southern Splendor Yang Spirit to be expressed through those secret arts with such exquisite seamlessness, so naturally wrought as though by Heaven itself!
Just like that instant moments ago.
Within the Azure Firmament Heavenly Furnace, Liu Dongqing had clearly already used an oceanic sea of lightning to completely entangle the Southern Splendor Yang Spirit, across different Dao domains and different layers of Dao-method expression.
No matter how he was born, perished, reincarnated, or underwent Transmigration Tribulation—
So long as his Southern Splendor Yang Spirit remained unable to contend against the lightning formed from the complete fusion of the divine resonance of Liu Dongqing's ten perfect Dao Fruits—
Then—
In the end, he still could not escape the word "death."
This should originally have been the Awakened Spirit, Illuminating Essence Dao Lord's final