"My mission had already been completed."
"Where this Heaven and Earth would ultimately go from here..."
"...was no longer something I could decide."
Li Shun sensed the faint, barely perceptible wisp of Fortune still remaining within his body and seemed to gain some insight.
At first, when he transformed into the Sage of the Hundred Schools and spread teachings across the world, the Fortune gathering within Li Shun had indeed grown ever greater.
At its peak, it had even occupied eighty or ninety percent of the world's Fortune.
But later, as the teachings of the Hundred Schools rose and more and more successors and followers emerged, the Fortune within him inevitably began flowing away in every direction.
It flowed into the other living beings of the world.
And now, after he had returned to his true identity—Li Fan of Great Qian—
the Fortune of this Heaven and Earth within his body was about to vanish completely.
I was never of this world, so why cling to its Fortune?
Li Shun did not feel much reluctance.
He had a premonition that this trial was about to end, and that he would be leaving this Heaven and Earth.
Most of an entire world's Fortune had once circulated through his body.
Naturally, Li Shun had not gained nothing from it.
"The path of Fortune is mysterious beyond mystery."
"With Fortune upon oneself, one can borrow it to wield the mighty power of Heaven and Earth, as though connected to the Heavenly Dao."
"Though Fortune flows without cease and is destined never to remain forever upon one person. Still..."
"There may not be no way to forcibly bind it."
Li Shun's gaze imperceptibly turned toward the depths of the Great Yu palace.
Ever since the Yan Kingdom army had besieged Yu Capital years ago,