Supreme Heaven, the Eleventh Heaven.
Within the Spirit Realm, layer upon layer of heavens rose like a tower, each an expansive, boundless greater world. From bottom to top, spirit resonance grew richer, and the mysteries of the Dao grew deeper.
The highest four heavens were hidden amid cloud palaces, beyond the sight of cultivators below.
At that moment, streams of divine thought were racing through the great heavenly domains, crossing paths and colliding. Vast and majestic, they all belonged to figures at the level of Great Dao Venerables.
"Jin Yu Xuanyi is dead," one divine thought said coldly. "The Tenth Heaven is already in chaos. Apart from the two Realm Lords left behind to guard it, none of those serving under Jin Yu can be contacted."
"Who did this?" another divine thought immediately demanded, its anger held in check. "They dared stroke Supreme Heaven's tiger whiskers? They're courting death."
"According to Jin Yu's final message, he mentioned two names: Radiant Splendor Heaven, and... Fuli Heaven."
"Fuli Heaven? The Fuli Heaven that once killed the Ancestral Dragon?!"
"It was them!"
The divine thoughts surged, clearly shocked by this unexpected name.
"Jin Yu also said," the first divine thought continued, "that Fuli has mastered a method that allows a [World Within the Body] to develop a heavenly Dao. Though useless to us Heaven-Ruling Ones, it has profound implications for Realm Lords."
"Well..." The divine thoughts fell silent. In truth, given their research into the two Daos of Time and Space, they were perfectly capable of letting a cultivator occupy the heavenly Dao position within their own world within the body, making the cultivator the heavenly Dao and the heavenly Dao the cultivator.
They had deliberately avoided taking that path only because they feared the existence of that Heavenly Venerable.
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