How hard it is to attain sagehood through the Sword Dao; I stand unrivaled in the mortal world

Watching Gu Changqing stroll about as leisurely as if he were wandering through a quiet courtyard,

All living beings were utterly dumbfounded.

What exactly was going on?

Had the Wine Sword Immortal failed to prove his Dao?

Hundreds of thousands of Interception Sect disciples had fought bathed in blood, only to earn this outcome in the end?

Leaving aside how the Interception Sect disciples reacted,

All living beings could not help showing profound disappointment.

But on second thought, some Mighty Experts looked as though realization had dawned on them.

"Even someone as powerful as the Wine Sword Immortal cannot break the heavenly Dao shackles in the end?"

"Alas, if that is truly so, what path forward could there possibly be for us?"

"This is bad. Even my Dao heart seems to be wavering."

"What a pity... what a pity..."

The Mighty Experts sighed under their breath.

Indeed!

Gu Changqing proving the Dao of primordial unity, shaking Heaven and Earth with his strength alone, and even settling accounts with the Four Saints of the Profound Gate-these had merely been the hopes all living beings had harbored.

Thinking about it calmly, however, Gu Changqing failing to prove his Dao seemed only natural.

After all, he was walking a path no predecessor had ever trodden.

Transcending the three Daos of heaven, earth, and humanity to attain supreme Hunyuan?!

How difficult was that?!

Had even someone as powerful as Pangu not fallen in the process of proving his Dao all those years ago?

Amid these discussions, nearly all living beings concluded that Gu Changqing had failed to prove his Dao.

His leisurely air and deep intoxication now were merely a forced attempt to salvage his dignity.

Or had Gu Changqing lost heart after his failure, submerged himself completely in fine wine, and truly fallen