Several more people emerged from seclusion in various places.
He sensed that within the place where he stood, as the currents of qi shifted, an unknown peril had appeared.
It seemed tribulation qi had begun to spread through the spiritual resonance of the qi currents.
This was not an isolated case.
After the Dao Masters secluded themselves beyond the Ninth Heaven and ceased interfering with the flow of the chess game, the opportunities of the Dao and the Great Dao no longer manifested so easily.
With their Great Daos suppressing this place, countless qi currents, spiritual resonances, and tribulation qi would not suddenly erupt as they had in ancient times, nor would alien fiends from beyond the heavens set foot here.
With the Great Daos of all Dao Masters existing together, all living beings could better comprehend a Great Dao through cultivation.
Yet without the influence of the Dao Masters, the heavenly secrets of the world had also become much clearer, with no need to worry about other transformations arising.
For cultivators of every Dao, this was clearly a mixture of good and bad.
For the moment, however, no one knew of this change.
A Dao pact was not a contract requiring written words.
It was an unspoken pact that neither side would act.
As for what came before, it was clearly not included within it.
But afterward, the many Dao Masters returned one by one to their own Dao grounds, either cultivating somewhere beyond the heavens or journeying deep into the Long River of Time.
In any case, they would no longer manifest in the present age of the human Nine Heavens.
Even upon the many worlds entangled in karma within this age and era, they likely would not cast down a single glance.
Lu Qing was still within