The Mandate of Heaven silently merged into his body. Zhou Yao closed his eyes and sensed it for a moment, yet detected no obvious changes.
The Heavenly Dao's favor he had imagined, the feeling of being blessed by fortune, did not arrive.
The Mythic Factors within his body continued operating steadily. They had not become purer, nor had his spiritual platform grown clearer.
Everything was so utterly unremarkable, as though the creation woven from countless threads of karma had never existed.
Zhou Yao could not help frowning slightly, a trace of surprise flashing through his eyes.
"Could something have gone wrong?"
He had successfully comprehended the Heaven-Bearing False-Truth Chapter. After weaving the Mandate of Heaven from countless karmic threads and bearing it upon himself, he should have had the fortunes of all heavens following him.
Even if the effects were not immediate, he should at least have sensed something.
Yet at this moment, there was nothing.
Just as he was thinking this, a knock suddenly sounded outside the villa's front door.
The confusion on Zhou Yao's face froze for an instant, replaced by subtle astonishment.
"So soon?"
He pondered for a breath, silently dispersed the formation surrounding the villa, then rose and walked toward the door.
The moment the door opened, a figure in white with a deathly pale face entered his sight. The visitor was Xie An.
The White Impermanence personally enfeoffed by Zhou Yao, the direct disciple of the Jade Capital City God, and one of the few people Zhou Yao had interacted with at Jade Capital Academy.
Back then, Xie An had also used the foundation of White Impermanence's divine office and Ghost-Deity Origin to secure a place in the Jade Void Twelve Golden Immortals Ritual.
However, compared to the other geniuses who had smoothly entered Jade