Indeed!
All living beings were utterly certain: above Ji Ren's head hovered a newly formed dao fruit.
More precisely, it was a supreme dao fruit of Sage caliber!
At that moment, heaven, earth, and the universe fell silent, without a sound.
On Kunlun Mountain, Yuanshi watched the scene, an unmistakable look of stunned disbelief appearing on his face.
As a Sage, his perception was far sharper.
Although Ji Ren's dao fruit was still somewhat weak, it already faintly radiated an aura of enduring myriad tribulations unscathed, of immortality through the ages.
Yuanshi knew better than anyone what that meant.
A long, long time passed.
A dry, hoarse murmur, laden with boundless bitterness and despair, squeezed through his clenched teeth, word by word.
"The dao fruit... is formed..."
"The path to proving the Dao... cannot be reversed..."
Boom!
Those few words were like the final straw that broke the camel's back.
They were also like a death knell proclaiming the final judgment!
Beside him, Taiqing Laozi had stood motionless all this time, as though turned into a statue. Hearing those words, his already hideously contorted face twitched violently once more.
Irreversible!
He, too, knew what that meant.
It meant that Ji Ren, this human ant he had never deigned to notice, would truly trample on his face and prove the Dao to become a Sage!
No one could stop him!
Perhaps that was precisely why his earlier palm strike had failed to shake humanity's fortune in the slightest.
After all, so long as Ji Ren truly possessed the opportunity and opening to prove the Dao and become a Sage...
Then from the moment he began gathering humanity's fortune, his rise had already become unstoppable.
It also meant that humanity's fortune, which Laozi had schemed over for endless ages and regarded as