[Immortal Lord Daocheng Dejiu] disliked fighting. Upon entering Chaos, he greeted everyone, then offered Li Huixi a salute between fellow Daoists.
"Fellow Daoists, I will not meddle in your battle this time. With the heavens in turmoil, I will protect their living beings, lest the heavens fall into extinction because of this."
[Immortal Lord Daocheng Dejiu] spoke calmly and put some distance between himself and the others.
Rather than stopping Li Huixi from elevating her standing to that of a Heavenly Lord, he cared more about whether the heavens survived. Once they fought, every realm throughout Chaos would be affected.
If even a thread of a True Lord's or Great Immortal Lord's mighty power leaked out and landed anywhere within the five great realms, it would wipe out all life there and turn the place into a forbidden zone. Someone therefore had to step forward to shelter the living beings of the five realms.
No one objected.
Given the current situation, one more made little difference, and neither did one fewer. Since [Immortal Lord Daocheng Dejiu] wanted to protect the living beings of the five realms, they would let him.
They all knew that [Immortal Lord Daocheng Dejiu] was an utterly good-natured soul.
"Stubborn fools."
Li Huixi swept her gaze over everyone in Chaos and spoke indifferently, utterly unconcerned.
As her words fell, the solar corona and lunar wheel behind Li Huixi shone. The Sun-Moon Mystic Light they released seemed boundless, intent on illuminating every corner of Chaos and the heavens.
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh.
The sound of flowing river water resounded through Chaos.
Then, before everyone's eyes, Li Huixi's figure above the five realms grew ever more imposing. Beneath the illumination of the Sun-Moon Mystic Light, she became unfathomable. For a fleeting moment, it seemed as though a Li Huixi