"I will climb higher."
"Keep climbing higher."
"Climb higher, little by little."
"Every mountain you never climbed, every sight you never saw-Taiping will see them all for you, without missing a single one."
"Even the sights in the heavens-one day, Taiping will surely go and see them in your stead."
"I heard that the Cloud-Ascending Platform in Chenglong Heaven connects to the upper realm. If you shout from there, even Heaven itself can hear you."
"When Taiping's cultivation reaches perfection, I will stand on that Cloud-Ascending Platform and call out to the Five Heavens, to Heaven itself."
"So that they all know that even someone with a mere mortal bone can stand there, can ascend to heaven and seek the Dao just like those with heavenly spirit bones and golden spirit bones!"
Perhaps no one could have imagined that, with his Golden Core shattered, Xu Taiping had not suffered a collapse of his Dao Heart. Instead, upon a Dao Heart already firmer than most, he had built an impregnable fortress!
"Boom!"
As though sensing Xu Taiping's unwavering Dao Heart at that moment, even though the golden hue had yet to be fully restored, the Qi and Blood True Essence hidden within his meridians and apertures abruptly released an Aura Fluctuation no weaker than before.
In an instant, the blast of air raised by Xu Taiping's fiercely surging Aura Fluctuation pushed all the water at the lake bottom outward.
Once the water at the bottom was thrust outward, the center of the lake abruptly caved in.
The next moment, everyone who had thought Xu Taiping's Dao Integration had failed watched in horror as a straight-backed figure burst through the waves from that depression like a sword, then shot into the sky.
"Boom-!"
Amid the thunderous shock, everyone saw Xu Taiping appear