As Fang Yun walked, the vital energy around him trembled lightly, then quickly returned to normal.
"I have urgent matters to attend to. I'll take my leave first."
The others were baffled and could only watch Fang Yun's back recede into the distance.
"Survival of the fittest? Those words are so fierce, faintly carrying the air of throwing Heaven and Earth into turmoil and setting all things upon one another... They do not sound like something Void Sage Fang would say." Gao Yong said.
"What message could Void Sage Fang have received to change him so greatly? At first hearing, those words merely seem unusual, but upon careful thought, they become deeply terrifying. It is as if some primordial savage beast lurks behind them, ready at any moment to devour all things. Could they be words of the Sacred Way?"
"Hearing them made my whole body turn cold."
"No. Words of the Sacred Way would surely form the Voice of the Sacred Way. Those words should be nothing of the sort," said a student.
Master Cheng said, "Not necessarily. Ordinary Voices of the Sacred Way arise from interpretations of the classics. For instance, last year in Jade Sea City, Void Sage Fang said, 'Correct it if it exists; take it as encouragement if it does not,' which was an annotation upon Zengzi's words. But some grander Voices of the Sacred Way cannot be formed merely by speaking a few words. There must be a Sacred Way to support them! Without a powerful Sacred Way, even the most correct words cannot produce the Voice of the Sacred Way."
"Ah? Could there be an unknown Sacred Way hidden behind those words?"
"You are overthinking this. The urgent matter is to find out what happened to Fang Yun. Even after becoming a Void