To Cross the Heavenly Dao Severed Sea

"Empty Boat, Self-Erasure..."

Li Shun realized why he had lost all sense of Li Qing: Li Qing's state of mind had transformed, as though he had been reborn.

He no longer clung to anything in his past.

Without Mystic Yellow Qi as a link between them, Li Shun could no longer peer into him.

"Walk the path he ought to walk."

"Perhaps that's for the best."

Li Shun read Li Qing's letter over and over in his mind, filled with mixed emotions.

Li Qing had obeyed his elder brother, Li Shun, in everything. He had even valued Li Shun's life above his own.

Once Li Shun discovered how easy Li Qing was to direct, he had grown ever more accustomed to treating him as a tool perfectly suited to his purposes.

He had overlooked Li Qing's own will.

"A golden-scaled fish was never meant to remain in a pond."

"How could someone Elder Wei valued enough to choose as the inheritor of Emperor-Slaying be content to spend his whole life running errands for someone else? Not even for the elder brother he cherished so deeply."

"Li Qing's awakening and departure were bound to happen. If anything, the reason he stayed until today was that his bond with 'Li Shun' truly ran deep."

Li Shun felt no anger over it. Instead, he felt a measure of relief and anticipation.

Some things could be done by anyone.

Others could only be done by certain people.

"I hope he'll surprise me before long."

His attention left East Mountain Town and returned to the Martial World.

Fei's work of carving out a separate realm was nearly complete.

Fang Han had watched the entire process.

It closely resembled the earlier creation of a sealed domain to contain and suppress a gathering point of heaven-and-earth primordial