The Great Sun blazed, illuminating the Starry Sky!
Di Ting came riding the clouds, streaks of bright yellow Divine Breath flickering across its body.
That Divine Breath had sprung from its own thoughts.
Deep in Di Ting's mind, the scene of Chen Cuo erupting with Divine Breath, his Vertical Eye giving rise to countless worlds, played over and over. Though it tried to sever and suppress the memory, every attempt proved futile. It could not root it out!
So as Di Ting sped through the clouds, the memory repeated beyond its control. By the time it neared the Great Sun, Chen Cuo's figure filled its mind, and its thoughts kept generating Divine Breath that spilled outward!
This is bad! If this goes on, he may seize my very mind. How did this happen? His methods are astonishing, but he's only at the fourth step. Even if he commands the Incomplete Dao's Legalism, I investigated from afar. To guard against accidents, I descended only as a projection of my will. How did I end up like this...
As Di Ting reeled in alarm, it sensed a vast, mellow will slowly approaching from ahead!
That will was as broad as the Sea, with something of winter sunlight's warmth. Before it even reached Di Ting, its mind grew much calmer.
Yet amid its surging emotions and thoughts, Di Ting failed to notice a tiny gleam seeping from its body along the ceaseless flow of Divine Breath, then drifting away on the wind.
Almost the instant that gleam departed, a monk seated upon a Nine Grades Golden Light Lotus Throne arrived in a streak of light.
"Di Ting, you look wretched. Was the matter at the borderlands truly so troublesome?"
At the monk's words, everything around them froze. Then he spread his palm.
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