Silence fell over the scene.
Qin Shujian stared into the enormous eye.
Neither moved. Only the void around them continued to collapse and reform.
A long time passed.
The enormous eye slowly withdrew.
As it departed, all the tribulation clouds dispersed.
Seeing this, Qin Shujian made no attempt to stop it.
The enormous eye was a manifestation of the Heavenly Dao's will. However, that will lacked the intelligence of a living being and could only act according to the rules, doing whatever benefited the world.
Take the past, for example.
The establishment of the Celestial Court had benefited the Myriad Races.
Thus, the Heavenly Dao had bestowed a certain degree of fortune upon it.
But things were different now.
Qin Shujian had broken through to Dao Fruit and completely escaped the world's constraints. In the Heavenly Dao's eyes, that made him a threat.
Thus, it had sought to eliminate that threat.
However.
Qin Shujian was too powerful, making the Heavenly Dao perceive an even greater threat.
After weighing the gains and losses of both options,
it had ultimately chosen to retreat.
All the phenomena vanished. Qin Shujian abruptly disappeared from the void, reappearing the next instant at the formation above the Celestial Court.
Scattered Flowers was still anchoring the illusory Heavenly Cycle Star Chart.
Years of consumption
had drained much of the power from the stars placed within it.
With a single glance, Qin Shujian saw through every aspect of the formation.
"In another ten years, the star power will be exhausted. Forcing growth really is inadvisable—"
He shook his head inwardly.
Yet Qin Shujian took no action.
Given the Great Thousand World's former circumstances, without doing this, there would have been no way to contend with the Demon Abyss.
Of course.
That was all in the past.
Previously, the