The entire Taiyin Palace trembled.
All because the Taiyin Palace had received two lengthy scriptures from the Sun Palace—classics of the lineage.
Yes, classics of the lineage!
Not conjecture, much less speculation!
They described a path already walked. The Taiyin-Sun Patriarch had opened a great path, and that path now lay beneath their feet. If they could not follow it, the fault lay not in the scriptures but in their own talent, aptitude, or fortune.
Why?
Because a being at the limit of the fourth step of Void Refining had already been born.
Because a being destined to achieve the seventh Dao Integration nirvana had already been born.
For him, becoming a seventh-step Supreme was not a goal to strive for in the future, nor some wild ambition. It was already certain.
"Then why do you..."
"Why do you still insist on fighting, on drawing every Supreme and Dao Child under heaven to surround and kill you?"
The Sun Sword Heir looked bitter. "Wouldn't it be better to live safely and steadily?"
"You've already reached the limit that generations of patriarchs sought. In the future, you're destined to unite the greater world, become its ruler, destroy every hostile Immortal Order, and raise our lineage to heights never seen before."
That damned brat had already broken through while still at Void Refining.
Why were there so many prodigies under heaven, and why were they all so strong?
Couldn't they wait for me?
"No!"
"I have to go back! Now!"
The Sun Sword Lord shot to his feet.
He did not care whether the Taiyin Sword Lord agreed. He wrapped the Taiyin Palace in his vast power and drove it madly toward the Spirit-Sealing Forbidden Domain. Gone was the calm composure with which he had just counseled the Yin-Yang Celestial, as though