[Fleeing, Meeting the Venerable Lord of Yin-Yang Authority, His Purpose] (Eight Make-Up Chapters, 8/16)

[The instant that [karmic law punishment] struck down, you moved as well.]

[You immediately fled.]

[However, you were not simply running away. That would have been meaningless!]

[The only reason you could currently hold your own against the [Lord of the Heavenly Court, Nine Heavens] was that he feared [karmic law punishment] and dared not go too far.]

[If you were to flee like that, your best option would be to use the Chaos Spiritual Root, the [Hollow Willow].]

[But just as [purple talent: I Am the Chess Player] had warned you last time...]

[—"It won't work."]

(This was mentioned in Chapter 451.)

[The reason was that the [Lord of the Heavenly Court, Nine Heavens] had the ability to find you.]

[And judging by his methods, he could probably crush the Chaos Spiritual Root, the [Hollow Willow], outright...]

[After all, merely by merging the ten thousand Daos into your body, you could already crush a Great Dao at any moment.]

[And that Chaos Spiritual Root, the [Hollow Willow], was at most a single complete [Space Great Dao].]

[Perhaps you could now escape unharmed by using the three instances of effect before cause gained from sacrificing [I Am the Chess Player].]

[But do not forget that Past Li Ping, with whom negotiations had just broken down, was still lurking behind you!]

[You had learned that [talents] took priority over [entries].]

[But that was all.]

[Everything you could currently do relied entirely on the sacrifice granted by [purple talent: Existence from Nonexistence], but those sacrificed talent abilities would disappear after an incense stick's worth of time.]

[In the end, you still had to use your final trump card.]

[The reason you had not used it right away was that you wanted to test your current mettle.]

[You wanted to see whether, with