That familiar voice, tinged with a hint of languor, rang out with perfect clarity in Ji Ren's mind.
"Why haven't you gathered the Humans' fortune yet?"
"This is your... uh... great fortuitous opportunity."
Ji Ren froze where he stood, his mind utterly blank.
Master?
There was no doubt about it. This was Gu Changqing's divine-sense transmission.
Gather the Humans' fortune?
A great fortuitous opportunity?
Thought after thought flashed through his mind, but they were a tangled mess he could not connect.
Instinctively, he raised his head toward the Void that had been battered into Chaos, then glanced at the two Heavenly Dao Sages in the distance, their faces black as the bottoms of pots and almost contorted with rage.
Everything had happened too quickly.
From his Master's manifestation and the single sword strike that shattered the stele, to the two Sages attacking in fury, to his Master's Doppelgänger quietly dissipating and setting the entire gathering ablaze...
It had all happened in the flash of lightning, the spark of flint.
He had yet to fully recover from the shock of his Master's heaven-spanning, earth-piercing prowess when this unexpected transmission plunged him into profound bewilderment once more.
Yet, in the next instant.
When his thoughts returned to the Human Sect Stele, which had been reduced to dust without leaving even a trace behind.
A flash of insight, like the first divine ray at the creation of Heaven and Earth, suddenly cleaved through every fog in his mind!
It made sense!
Everything made sense!
In that instant, Ji Ren understood everything!
Master... what far-reaching calculations!
No, this was no mere calculation. It was an open stratagem! An earth-shaking design laid plainly before everyone!
Master's earlier manifestation had not simply been to back me up!
*Nor had it merely been to shatter the Human