In Heaven Beyond Heaven.
Rosy light spread across the sky, and boundless radiance of the Dao enveloped everything. For the first time since their shattering in antiquity, the Thirty-Three Heavens were whole again.
Luo Qinglian's origin hovered high in the heavens, quietly overlooking the vast, boundless Heavenly Origin Continent below.
The rivers and mountains of the Eastern Region, the peaks of the Southern Region, the ancient lands of the Western Region, the glaciers of the Northern Border, the crimson sands of the Demon Realm, and the myriad wilds of the Demon Court.
Farther out lay the newly restored Nine Heavens.
He had lived through it all, witnessing this world advance step by step toward its flourishing golden age, crowned foremost among the Three Thousand Great Worlds.
Back then, the Immortal Court had been at its zenith. Immortal vessels streamed like rivers above the Nine Heavens, the laws of the Thirty-Three Heavens shone resplendently, and the God Clans of the Heavens paled at the mere mention of Heavenly Origin.
And that man had stood above them all.
Yuan Huang.
Having abruptly returned to his rightful place, he inevitably recalled the past. Yet at this thought, Luo Qinglian's expression still turned slightly peculiar.
Much against his will, he remembered a piece of his embarrassing past.
Question: "Why does the Azure Lotus Sword Master find Yun Huang so objectionable?"
Luo Qinglian answered with a smile, "Apart from that bastard later going mad, personally dismantling the entire Thirty-Three Heavens, and slashing me down from the sky in the process, there's another reason."
A reason Luo Qinglian had no intention of revealing for the rest of his life.
Namely, back then, he had actually rather ad-mired-Yuan-Huang.
To be precise, all the laws of Heavenly Origin, and even the Heavenly Origin Heavenly Dao itself, had revered