In an unknown place, within the Stars Paying Homage to the Pole Star Diagram, stood the North Star Palace.
Sensing a change in the outside world, Divine Lord Qiyuan quietly opened his eyes. He had been cultivating in silence.
"Treasure Toad is dead."
His divine will touched heaven and earth. Divine Lord Qiyuan frowned slightly.
At that moment, the skies changed with him. Dark clouds gathered, lightning flashed, and thunder rolled, as though the heavens might unleash their wrath at any instant.
"A pity. Huai Yu of the War-Stopping Immortal Abode cut him down before. It looked as though both body and spirit had been destroyed, but I knew he hadn't died."
"I never thought he would fail to escape death in the end. Perhaps that was the flaw he was born with: he could escape for a time, but not forever."
Thinking of the Treasure Toad Divine Lord's death, Divine Lord Qiyuan sighed.
Within the Divine Dao Founding, no one understood the Treasure Toad Divine Lord better than he did—not even the Treasure Toad Divine Lord himself.
After all, he had secretly brought about the Treasure Toad Divine Lord's birth.
The Treasure Toad Divine Lord had never been some naturally born anomaly. He was, in truth, the product of an experiment.
"When the True God's Body first appeared, there was no visible omen, but the waves it raised beneath the surface were considerable.
"In a sense, the Impermanence Sect failed to open a Grotto-Heaven and suffered such a severe backlash because the True God's Body had diminished their fortune without their knowing."
As Divine Lord Qiyuan recalled the past, his thoughts drifted away.
He had been able to establish the Divine Dao from nothing in the Spirit-Void Realm chiefly because a fortuitous encounter had brought him two great Divine