Chen Xun's voice gradually sank lower, his gaze losing all focus.
He Ling drew in a sharp breath. If that had been Big Brother's original intention, then the Heavenly Dao had been bait for all living beings beneath heaven. Slay Heaven had not been meant to open the Longevity Law, but to utterly destroy it...
When that time came, the Eternal Ancient Immortal Territory would likely have waged a great war within the Heavenly Dao, rather than fighting separately.
Even if the Heavenly Dao ultimately collapsed...
That would have been Karma wrought by all living beings themselves. There would have been nothing but regret, and the Dao hearts of all spirits would have found greater peace.
The Eternal Ancient Immortal Territory likely would not have fractured in the end either. It would have been passed down steadily from generation to generation, for the Eternal Ancient powerhouses were beginning to wither away, while the newer generation would continuously venture outward, because Big Brother was not stationed in Eternal Ancient.
In the end...
Big Brother and Second Brother would have returned safely, and the world would have been at peace.
So long as Big Brother was there, none of these things could have happened—whether it was the war against the Heavenly Dao, the withering of the older generation, or even the Eternal Ancient Myriad Clans venturing out on their own and gradually forgetting Big Brother with the passage of time. As long as he was there, it would have been impossible!
Yet it seemed that nothing had unfolded as Big Brother had envisioned.
Everything had deviated.
Leading to World's Campaign Against Eternal Ancient, Big Brother's return, and his personal destruction of the Heavenly Dao...
"It's fine," Chen Xun said softly. "This is fine too. The losses are merely somewhat greater than what