Ke Ding watched them depart, then stood where he was and laughed as he cursed:
"You brat... you've always been so ungrounded."
Over the years, he had entrusted his personal disciples to the Nine-Heavens Immortal Alliance. Qi Xin was working hand in hand with that Nine Heavens Alliance Leader, and quite a few visiting Dao Palace disciples now served under him.
But his own direct main lineage could not leave. They could only remain and guard the Heavenly Secrets Dao Palace.
Ever since that incident in which Immortals had encircled them, the prodigious disciples of every faction had no longer dared enter the Heavenly Secrets Dao Palace. The Dao Palace was now an isolated island, with no aid from any direction.
He could not help thinking of Shi Rong.
If that man were still here, Ke Ding believed Shi Rong would surely have led people into the Taiyi Great World at all costs, relieving the crisis facing the Heavenly Secrets Dao Palace.
Ke Ding clasped his hands behind his back and sighed. The relationships among their generation seemed to have long since fallen apart after Shi Rong's death.
Yao Qin had secluded herself and never emerged. Qi Xiao had withdrawn from the world. Gu Yuexi had returned the great authority of her race and fled into the void... no longer concerning herself with worldly affairs. Ye Qingyou had spilled her blood across the Celestial River, her immortal corpse sinking at its edge. The remaining few had all retired from the Great World.
"The era of our generation has come to an end, after all." Ke Ding gazed at the blood rain filling the sky, a faint curve rising at the corner of his lips. "That thread of Heavenly Secrets is with this Dao Master. Even if Dao Sacrifice scatters it,