"Today's Immortal Realm has perfected and complete Great Dao veins. This ranking no longer needs to exist. Yet Eternal Ancient Immortal Territory's whereabouts are uncertain. I have stood before the Human Dao Pavilion many times, wishing to ask Eternal Ancient Immortal Territory to return the Dao to heaven, but I never received the slightest response. From that, I knew that the Eternal Ancient Liu and Shi Clans had developed selfish motives."
"...They have even turned this ranking into a means of restraining and striking at cultivators of our Immortal Realm."
As these words fell, the expressions of countless cultivators across the Three Thousand Immortal Domains changed. An uncontrollable uproar unexpectedly rose between heaven and earth.
Qi Qianqiu's aura blazed like the sun, while his gaze was steady as an abyss. His voice shook the heavens:
"Though I stand alone and cannot erase all ten thousand Daos upon the Great Dao Ranking, I am the patriarch of Formation Dao. What I bear in this life should not be the safety of my own body, but the duty to preserve a thread of life for the younger cultivators of Formation Dao!"
"Rather than let it become an Immortal Dao that can be erased at another's whim—this is no different from directly erasing the future of their immortal paths."
His back stood peerlessly towering, his words like blades that cleaved apart every doubt and regret from the outside world.
"Eternal Ancient Immortal Territory!"
"I, Qi Qianqiu—I, Qi Qianqiu—today use formations to establish heaven, use heaven to bear the Dao, and use the Dao to protect formations! If you are aggrieved, unleash the wrath of thunder. I alone shall bear it!"
"Since I dared to openly erase the name of Formation Dao today, I had long since left myself no path of retreat!"
Boom—!