Within the Martial Arts Space, all was silent.
Upon the vaulted firmament, a towering figure quietly opened a pair of eyes woven from the Starry River, seeming lost in thought...
"Them?"
A murmur rose. Li Qingshan blinked, then once more stared at his current Starry Sky Body.
They were gone!
Every figure that had flashed into view earlier had vanished!
Everything had been like fleeting light and passing shadows, leaving behind not the slightest trace, as though all he had seen just now had been an illusion!
"An illusion?"
Suspicion filled Li Qingshan's eyes, yet he did not rush to deny it.
In truth, calling it an illusion was not entirely wrong.
Because those figures had not truly appeared within the Martial Arts Space. He had only "seen" them when he gazed upon himself.
Or rather,
Those figures had appeared only within his "field of vision"—within that instant of "dazed vision" after he absorbed the strand of purple qi that had reverted from the Pagoda Tree branch to its origin!
"No, it shouldn't have been dazedness. It was... enlightenment?!"
Li Qingshan first shook his head with certainty, yet when he spoke the word "enlightenment," he still hesitated.
There was no other reason. It was too unfamiliar.
Over endless years, he had experienced a similar feeling of "enlightenment" only once—when he had completely destroyed the Heavenly Book.
Only once!
"So just now, I... understood something again?"
Li Qingshan spoke uncertainly, shifting his attention back to what he had "seen" just now—the figures that had flashed through his vision one after another.
Feng Boyong, Ye Yukong, Xiang Hao...
Qing Feng, Chi Wen, Shengyang...
Instant Prison, Lu Tie, Yun Shang...
Beginning with Feng Boyong, they had been the peerless prodigies he had first known as possessing "heaven-defying comprehension." Ye Yukong, Xiang Hao, Qing