The Dark Red Pagoda towered amid surging golden waves.
Eight towering figures of different forms stood upon the waves, rolling Killing Intent pouring from their bodies.
"..."
Jiang Yuechu stared blankly at the silent behemoths.
For a moment, she had no idea what new trick her heaven and earth had pulled.
In fact, ever since she had entered the Myriad-Forms Heaven Realm, the demons she had imprinted on the Dao Painting had appeared within her heaven and earth.
She had thought little of them before, taking them for mere phenomena conjured by the Dao Painting.
But now, those eyes were staring straight at her.
Jiang Yuechu pressed her lips together as a suspicion stirred in her heart.
Could these demons recorded in the Dao Painting replace living beings and become the Dao Patterns of this heaven and earth?
At the same time,
as the eight figures turned toward her, ripples suddenly spread across the Dao Painting.
Soon, places she had once known well appeared within the ripples.
There were Longyou's flying sands and the blue bricks of Chang'an's streets.
All manner of places beyond Great Tang's borders appeared in turn above the Blood Sea.
Jiang Yuechu stood quietly above the Blood Sea, her gaze lowered as she contemplated the two visions.
Before long,
a possibility took shape in her mind.
Two utterly different paths lay before her.
The first was to follow Chu Tiange's advice and use the living beings of Great Tang, shown in those ripples, to gather Dao Patterns.
That path was relatively safe and should allow her to enter the Supreme Capital Realm.
But if she did, when she eventually broke through to the Supreme Capital Realm and heavenly might descended... would the people she knew in Great Tang be caught in it?
The second was to