When Di Jun and Taiyi returned from Zixiao Palace, flames still blazed through Golden Crow Hall on the Sun Star.
Neither spoke along the way, each weighed down by heavy concerns.
Hong Jun's words, "The Earthly Dao has emerged," pressed on Di Jun's heart like a massive boulder.
They had made him repeatedly work through the Heavenly Court's next countermeasures throughout the journey from Zixiao Palace to the Sun Star.
The Divine Dao System now had the Earthly Dao, which stood alongside the Heavenly Dao, as its foundation of laws.
The Witch Clan's reserves had grown deep enough to stand as an equal to Hong Jun's Immortal Dao.
Di Jun knew that, although the direction Hong Jun had given was clear-
accelerate their development during the window in which the Witch Clan consolidated the Netherworld, then seek a way to break the deadlock when the Sages emerged-
truly putting that direction into practice required not merely time, but a complete and decisive plan of action.
Taiyi had likewise remained silent throughout the journey.
The Chaos Bell lay quietly in his sleeve, but he could feel that the faint pull deep within it had never disappeared.
Every expansion of the Divine Dao System, every manifestation of Pangu's legacy, strengthened that pull a little more.
The perilous moment when the Treasure-Dropping Golden Coin had nearly knocked the Chaos Bell away at the edge of the Undying Volcano remained vivid in his mind.
Now that the Earthly Dao had been born as well, Taiyi had no confidence in how much longer the Chaos Bell could remain in his hands if things continued this way.
When the two returned to the Sun Star, Kunpeng was overseeing the Heavenly Court's military affairs in Lingxiao Treasure Hall.
The Ten Great Demon Marshals each led their own