"We're almost there. Keep going..." Bird Grandpa suddenly paused. Divine radiance seemed to flash in his eyes, shaking heaven and earth.
Black light emerged, and an overwhelmingly powerful presence shook the heavens, but the Azure Stone Road blocked it all.
"Are they slipping into a demonized state again?" Ji Hao frowned slightly. There was something deeply wrong with these two now.
"Wake up!" Ji Hao roared. Thunder light blazed, brimming with noble righteousness, dispelling evil, severing demonic influences, and annihilating sinister, ominous thoughts.
Brilliant thunder shattered the darkness. His voice was like a thunderclap beneath a clear sky, a great bell struck amid silence, pouring enlightenment into their minds and pulling them out of the darkness.
"Do you two truly remember nothing about yourselves now?" Ji Hao asked gravely.
"Too much is missing," Bird Grandpa said, his pupils slightly unfocused. The bird perched on his shoulder was also bewildered, looking somewhat dazed.
Ji Hao sighed inwardly. A single thought could make one a god; a single thought could make one a demon. That perfectly described Bird Grandpa and Grandpa Jingbi's current state.
Their condition was extremely unusual. Their spirits had resided in the Void God Realm for so long that serious problems had arisen.
They had been injured, and even now they were still suppressing certain things. That was why the signs of demonization were growing increasingly pronounced.
"The Hongmeng Thunder Pond could cleanse them and remove the dark matter, but it has long been incomplete. Part of it was lost in the Sea of Boundaries. I don't know whether it can purify them completely," Ji Hao mused.
"Let's deal with those suppressed Darkness Beings first!" Ji Hao decided.
The three of them then continued onward.
They followed a road straight up into the sky, breaking through clouds and mist,