"Master, what exactly is going on?"
A moment later, Xiang Nantian looked up at Li Changeng's enormous Dharma Aspect, his face filled with confusion.
At that moment, he was no different from Xu Taiping beside him, equally bewildered.
Li Changeng did not answer Xiang Nantian immediately. Instead, he looked toward Daoist Lord Wangchen, who likewise towered between heaven and earth in the form of a Dharma Aspect nearby, and cupped his hands respectfully.
"Thank you for protecting us all these years, Dao Lord. Otherwise, this old man and these disciples of mine could never have held on for eight hundred years."
Daoist Lord Wangchen said calmly:
"Don't flatter me. You're only alive through sheer shit luck."
As he spoke, he turned toward the bewildered Xu Taiping below and said expressionlessly:
"If you want to thank someone, thank him."
Not the least offended, Li Changeng also turned toward Xu Taiping below with a smile.
"Young friend Taiping, without your words today-'Why ascend to the Great Void to attain the Dao?'-this old man and these disciples of mine would likely have had our souls scattered and spirits dispersed after Liberation by Violence."
Xu Taiping asked in confusion:
"Observatory Master Li, did my words really have that much effect?"
He had only said "Why ascend to the Great Void to attain the Dao?" offhand, without thinking of anything else.
After meeting Xu Taiping's eyes, Li Changeng glanced at Qi Haitang and Xiang Nantian before speaking:
"Our Third Watch Observatory has three Origin Law Inheritances. The first is the Sea-Dried Art, the second is the Third Watch Curse, and the third is the undying Dharma Aspect."
"According to the inheritances, only by cultivating all three to the extreme law stage together..."
"Can one reach the legendary Celestial Person Realm."
"Of these, the inheritances of