In short.
In that very instant.
Towering waves surged through Immortal King Gu Ming's heart, and countless thoughts flashed through his mind.
Under normal circumstances.
Faced with a terrifying mighty being like Chen Changqing, faced with this Dao-Comprehension Heavenly Net that shrouded heaven and earth, he would absolutely have chosen to submit without hesitation and acknowledge Chen Changqing as his master.
There was nothing to hesitate over.
Only those who understood the times could be called true heroes.
Countless dazzling mighty beings in the Immortal Realm knew to bow before absolute power.
Bowing was no disgrace.
Dying was the real disgrace.
But the problem was.
He... he actually had no control over his own fate now!
When that wisp of his true spirit had fled to the Lower Realm to reincarnate, a terrifying will had explicitly demanded that he swear a Heavenly Dao Oath to serve it. Otherwise, he would die utterly, his Dao extinguished!
Even now, he still had no idea who that mysterious, terrifying will actually belonged to.
Yet the restraint of the Heavenly Dao Oath he had sworn to it had always remained within his soul's sea of consciousness.
Moreover, only because that being had intervened had he been able to preserve a wisp of true spirit and successfully escape from the Immortal Realm to the Lower Realm.
In truth.
That mysterious being was also the one secretly orchestrating the various "immortal opportunities" in the White Jade Capital!
Immortal King Gu Ming did not know what it intended to do, but he understood that its designs were anything but small.
If he chose to submit to Chen Changqing now, it would amount to betraying that mysterious being.
When that happened, the mark of Heavenly Dao rules within his soul would be activated by his broken oath.
Once