Seeking the Enemy

"Heavenly Dao?"

Within the Heaven of Purple Firmament.

Fang Qing naturally saw Shi Liugen as well, and along with that, he browsed through his memories...

"The Heavenly Dao is the world itself. What I do harms heaven and earth, so naturally there is backlash... though ordinarily, I have no cause to fear it."

"Still, this power of the Heavenly Dao is truly rather mysterious."

He pondered it. "With my current strength, there are no longer any opponents within heaven and earth. Then... invincible beneath heaven, enemies from beyond heaven?"

After all, this world of the Breath-Nourishing Dao was not some lone realm hanging in isolation. It was merely a rather unusual world.

If chance brought it to the notice of powerful immortals or gods wandering beyond the heavens, that would be perfectly natural.

Indeed, if this "Heavenly Dao" sensed something and actively drew over an Immortal Lord, that likewise would not be impossible!

"And if it does not borrow from without, then it seeks from within... So, do those prehistoric [Year Guardians] have a chance of reviving once more?"

Fang Qing calculated in secret.

Back then, in order to sever the Great Sun [Year Guardian]'s rebirth, he had chosen to reverse-refine the Five Primordials and restart the world.

By all reason, those Golden Seats were entirely new, and heaven and earth were entirely new as well. There should have been no possibility of revival.

But he was not a true Creator, after all. Of the fifty, Heaven evolves forty-nine, always leaving behind a single thread of life.

"Or perhaps... the variable lies with the Phoenix?"

Fang Qing was still somewhat surprised that First Phoenix had so smoothly attained the Fire Virtue [Year Guardian].

The ones he had originally favored more were the reincarnations of "Great Sun Tathagata" or "Supreme Unity