Heaven's Will Sect, the Sect Master's Main Hall.
A woman in a long gown of starlight sat quietly, her clear, lovely eyes as still as death. Though her beauty could topple cities, she gave off a strange sense of being "not human."
"Is it time?"
She suddenly sensed something and murmured softly.
A mote of magnificent consciousness was descending into her heart, gradually changing her sense of self.
After today, she would no longer be herself.
Cen Lingyi understood Heaven's Will's intentions, yet had no thought of defying them, even submitting of her own accord. She had been born for this, cultivated for this; all the meaning in her life was for this day.
If Heaven's Will wished to become a Symbol, she first needed an independent identity. Thus, from the very beginning, Cen Lingyi herself had been the future Heaven's Will.
Such was Heaven's Will; it could not be defied.
As that mote of consciousness settled into her heart, Cen Lingyi's cultivation, previously stuck at a bottleneck, began soaring. In an instant, she broke through the Sixth Realm and entered Seventh Realm Mahayana.
The profound and mysterious Dao Resonance of Fate scattered through the Main Hall. Aside from the changes in her cultivation, Cen Lingyi's already peerless beauty gradually became even more transcendent.
Previously, she had borne a thirty-percent resemblance to Heaven's Will, but in these brief moments of transformation, it abruptly rose to ninety percent. At the same time, she gained a little more emotion, a trace of a living person's presence.
"Only the me of today is my true self."
Heaven's Will-Cen Lingyi smiled faintly.
"Oh?"
Within the Delusive Dust Great Thousand, Tai Zhen sensed something and raised his eyebrows slightly. "Already incarnated in the Present World and begun descending? A rather good start."
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