Elsewhere.
Amid his dazed bewilderment, the instant the Awakened Spirit, Illuminating Essence Dao Lord saw the unmistakable figure of Liu Dongqing, who haunted him like a lingering ghost, and heard his voice-
An indescribably complex surge of emotion twisted the Awakened Spirit, Illuminating Essence Dao Lord's entire face!
Why-
Why couldn't you just leave me alone?
A ghost that wouldn't leave!
A ghost that wouldn't leave!!!
But he was, after all, an undying true spirit who had undergone transmigration tribulation, someone who had weathered the towering winds and waves of Great Dao strife in the Yang World more than once.
Amid that utmost emotional distortion.
A sense of numbness instead swiftly arose within the Awakened Spirit, Illuminating Essence Dao Lord.
Then.
The Awakened Spirit, Illuminating Essence Dao Lord visibly calmed down.
"No wonder-"
"No wonder Cult Leader Liu only sent a Ten Absolutes Formation down over the Old Dao Lord earlier."
"Instead of personally striking to slay this humble Daoist."
"By rights, your grievances with the Old Dao Lord should run deeper."
"If you had a chance to fight him, you shouldn't have passed it up."
"Only today did I understand."
"So the Old Dao Lord, who changed his Dao Path, is no longer your opponent in Dao strife."
"Instead, it is me. After I attained the Southern Splendor Yang Spirit and mastered the Dao fruit resonance of the body-soul three origins path, I was the one who stood against you."
"Who could have imagined-"
"Cult Leader Liu, the Dao Lord Liu renowned throughout the world for the paths of the five elements and eight trigrams, was actually especially accomplished in the body-soul three origins path!"
"That you had nurtured the [qi origin true one] Dao fruit resonance to complete perfection!"
It seemed that, at this moment, he had finally