After the Great Dao Venerable's voice fell silent, Celestial Pivot Star sank into "stillness."
It was not ordinary quiet, but a sedimentation wrapped in time.
Most of those present were still immersed in the lingering echoes of those words.
Some frowned in contemplation.
Some closed their eyes in enlightenment.
Some treated them as priceless treasures.
Golden motes still drifted down from the sky, settling upon everyone's shoulders, hair, and robes, branding the true meaning of time contained within that sermon deep into their souls.
The starlight of the Big Dipper dimmed to its utmost limit at that moment.
It was as though the radiance of the entire starfield had been gathered upon Celestial Pivot Star alone.
Xu Changqing sat cross-legged on his cushion, his expression calm, though waves had yet to settle within his heart.
Every word in his master's exposition of time emphasized the authority of Time Force, while also hinting that such authority belonged solely to "Him," who commanded the River of Time.
Any attempt to bypass time was a challenge to that authority.
Yet the Origin Dao Xu Changqing had created existed precisely outside time.
Untouched by karma, beyond the Three Realms.
It was another complete system belonging to him alone, independent of the Great Dao Venerable.
Could these words have been meant as a warning to him?
Of course, it was all merely speculation.
Xu Changqing had never revealed the Origin Dao before anyone. Everything he had done had been disguised with Creation Force.
Perhaps his master merely felt that this disciple had changed somewhat from before.
But He probably had not noticed anything suspicious.
Otherwise, once the Origin Dao was exposed, what awaited him would not be his master's probing, but the same fate that had befallen the Lord of Creation Dao.
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