She had a faint feeling that something in this place was calling to her.
Without hesitation, Li Zi strode forward.
The System was already getting excited.
This time, Li Zi had sensed the pull herself. She truly had an inheritance of her own in this place.
That meant Li Zi had, at the very least, the potential to ascend.
If the Host could ascend to immortality, the System wouldn't have to wait until she died and then find a new Host. That was definitely good news!
It was as though some special power within her Divine Soul was calling to her.
As if bewitched, Li Zi walked forward, step by step.
The System cheered. [Quick, see what Dao it is! The Unfettered Dao? The Heartless Dao? The Selfless Dao? The Dao of Life and Death? It could be any of them!]
Li Zi was a little nervous. [I'd prefer the Unfettered Dao. The name sounds interesting.]
At last, she stopped before a badly dilapidated ruin. Li Zi could clearly feel that the call was right in front of her.
Except...
Half the Cave Abode before her had been destroyed, and almost all the structures outside its entrance lay in ruins.
Most striking of all, a massive dark-gold sword stood embedded at an angle in the stone wall beside the Cave Abode.
Nearly the entire blade had sunk into the rock. Whoever had wielded it must have borne a deep grudge against the Cave Abode's owner.
The call grew stronger and stronger.
It was almost bewitching, luring her onward.
But Li Zi's gaze kept circling back to the sword.
"System, do you think this ancient senior won or lost?"
The System was speechless.
At a time like this, she was worrying about whether that senior had won?
"What does it matter