"You could say I've waited for who knows how many kalpas, how many tribulations. At long last, you've come today."
At that moment, Zhen Yuanzi had been filled with joy, feeling fortunate that he had found his Dao companion. But when he heard Red Cloud say this,
his heart gave an involuntary lurch.
As he took a good look at the exquisitely beautiful abbess before him, crimson radiance curling around her like rosy clouds, doubts stirred within him.
Could it be that, by deliberately choosing this Primordial World where Red Cloud became a Heaven and Earth Saint and ruler of the world, I've walked straight into a deep pit?
The instant this thought arose in Zhen Yuanzi's mind, it was reflected in the sea of consciousness of Red Cloud, Abbess Seven Absolutes, whose cultivation he could not discern and whose vast, terrifying abilities he could not fathom.
The incomparably beautiful Red Cloud, Abbess Seven Absolutes,
laughed brightly and spoke with utter candor to the anxious, frightened Zhen Yuanzi. "Fellow Daoist Zhen Yuanzi, you're right. The reason I've waited for you so long is that I've been waiting for you to complete the most important missing link in the fortune of my world's incomplete three thousand great daos!"
"Now that you've come before me, this Primordial World of mine, originally incomplete and merely a single plane, will rise from a subsidiary world to the principal one. At the same time, it will slowly devour and replace the Primordial Worlds of other planes, becoming the one and only Primordial World."
"Fellow Daoist Zhen Yuanzi, you really have made this an agonizing wait."
No sooner had Red Cloud, Abbess Seven Absolutes, finished speaking
than Zhen Yuanzi's vision went black.
He was instantly swallowed and swept into a cloudy void, bound so tightly that