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Under the immense power of Incense Offerings, the Divine Kingdom grew and took shape at astonishing speed. It even manifested, becoming visible to the naked eye.
Like a vast flower in bloom, it drifted toward the sky, seemingly about to rise into the heavens.
"What is this...?"
Tang Changsheng instinctively wanted to stop it, for he sensed the faint consciousness of the Mirror World within it.
But the next moment, he stopped and smiled instead. "So that's it. You're going with the flow? Fine. That saves me from having to repay such an enormous karmic debt someday!"
As he began to comprehend the Path of Redemption, Tang Changsheng suddenly understood.
Tang Changsheng had once perceived the laws of the world's cycle through the World Tree. All things grew and perished within a world.
They separated from the World Consciousness and became individual lives, tasted every manner of experience, then returned to dust and earth. After death, they rejoined the world's cycle.
This was a balance. It was also the path as the World Tree saw it!
Yet for years, Tang Changsheng had been drawing a constant stream of vast Incense and Fire Prayer Power from the Mirror World.
Vow Power came from souls. It was meant to follow bodies and souls through their endless cycles in this world, but instead it had been drained away without cease.
Perhaps, to a normal world, Incense and Fire Prayer Power from billions of people was not an outrageously large force.
That might be true of the Devouring Serpent's world, or the world where the Lord of Ultimate had laid his trap.
But the Mirror World