Heaven and earth shone brightly.
The dust swirling through the air and the demonic obstructions all dispersed, unable to endure beneath that glorious light of golden blessing. At that very moment, someone hidden within Changning Commandery set out.
Li Huanyou had watched the great battle at Western Mound clearly. Indeed, when Emperor An borrowed the power of subduing earth, his own nature and life had resonated violently.
Wei Mi had used Five-Tone Flux.
His circumstances were nowhere near as glorious as Wei Mi's, and so he understood himself perfectly well.
He was merely an evil creature tethered by reins.
When he was first born, he had still been unable to restrain his innate nature, needing to devour hundreds of ghosts and drink a thousand pools of blood each day. Only after a rebuke from that Hearing the Nether Golden Core had he finally come to his senses.
The process used to awaken Wei Mi had been far more sophisticated. A wondrous treasure of the Earth-Subduing Great Dao had probably been used, granting him a measure of clarity from birth, making him more human than beast.
Compared with reincarnation through golden nature, a being awakened directly... was more prone to losing control, but was also more complete.
Through that sacrificial ceremony, Wei Mi had successfully entered the human Dao and gained complete control over that golden nature. Even so, he could not possibly rival the Flame Lord.
One was a genuine reincarnated Golden Core; the other was merely an evil creature transformed into a human. There was no need to debate which was stronger.
In some respects, both north and south had exercised considerable restraint. Only the two rulers had fought, without drenching Changning in blood: the An Dynasty troops stationed in the Qinling Mountains had taken a detour straight toward