Lady Jade Mother turned back and gave Xu Taiping a long, searching look. Only after pondering for a long while did she speak:
"Little fellow, it is still too early for you to learn of these things."
She immediately added:
"You need only know that this great void calamity is a fetter of fate upon the world we inhabit."
"If we cannot break free, every legacy and trace of existence in this world will be utterly erased."
"Even those of us who have already ascended to the Upper Realm will suffer the same fate."
Xu Taiping was deeply shocked.
He had never imagined that the great void calamity confronting the Shangqing Realm would affect even the Upper Realm.
Thinking of the Heavenly Officials like Kang Cangzi, who had continued reincarnating to this day, Xu Taiping suddenly realized something. His expression grew solemn as he asked:
"So you have been plotting how to break this fated calamity since long ago?"
Jade Mother nodded and said:
"A very long time indeed."
She turned away, her voice tinged with desolation:
"But even we cannot foresee what the outcome will be."
Boom...!!!
As the two spoke, a pillar of light formed from a five-colored halo suddenly descended from the sky canopy.
It enveloped both Xu Taiping and Lady Jade Mother.
In that instant, Xu Taiping suddenly felt his entire body grow lighter, as though some shackle had been undone.
Even the aura around him surged by several tenths in an instant.
After a brief daze, Xu Taiping's eyes suddenly lit up as he said:
"Lady Jade Mother, the edict you requested from Shangqing has descended!"
Jade Mother secretly breathed a sigh of relief as well, but immediately shook her head again and said:
"This is not all of it."
Under Xu Taiping's puzzled gaze,