Upon hearing Zhang Yu say this, King Xi was reassured. Mister Tao had never made empty boasts; if he said something could be done, then it certainly could be done. He said, "Then I shall leave everything to you, sir."
Zhang Yu looked outside. As that spiritual power dissipated, the last trace of chaotic qi vanished along with it.
So long as even a single connection to chaotic qi remained in the world, it would continue descending without end. Now that even its vessel no longer existed, the tether had naturally been severed.
Yet this also fulfilled Ying Zhuan's entrusted wish.
Shi Yanxin, Yao Zhenjun, and the others did not know that the Ying Zhuan they had seen before was not Ying Zhuan himself, but a body both like and unlike himself, refined in order to break through to the Upper Layer.
That Turbid Canon Seal had been passed to Zhang Yu by Ying Zhuan before he embarked upon the path. Once Zhang Yu saw it, he understood that Ying Zhuan had chosen to use the Great Chaos as a ladder for ascending the Dao. Yet, in order to avoid the corruption of the Great Chaos and ultimately cast it off completely, he had used his unique Dao method to shape a substitute body.
As long as this substitute body first attained the rank of Profound Venerable, Ying Zhuan could then use it as a ladder for ascending the Dao and smoothly climb into the Upper Layer.
But if he simply followed it upward directly, he would likewise tread in the substitute body's footsteps and be corrupted by the Great Chaos, rendering all this meaningless.
Thus, only by destroying the substitute body that had attained the higher realm could he truly succeed.
Yet there was a contradiction here. If the