Silence!
In the blink of an eye!
The vast Golden Ao Island sank into deathly silence once more.
Compared with the uproar that had seethed to the heavens before, the quiet now seemed especially eerie.
Over a million gazes remained rigidly glued to that languid figure as he wandered farther and farther away, not moving an inch.
Every face was filled with bewilderment and helplessness.
He had left?
After expounding an eternal Great Dao that shook the world and stirred towering waves in everyone's hearts, he had simply... walked away without looking back?
Without even a word of explanation?
What was this supposed to be?
Good grief!
If Senior Brother Changqing-or Junior Brother Changqing-had chosen not to preach, that would have been one thing.
But doing this now was fucking... a little too irresponsible, wasn't it?
After all, whether it had been Dao Ancestor Hongjun in the past or the Sages of the present age who came after him, none of their sermons had consisted merely of explaining cultivation methods.
Answering questions and dispelling doubts should have been part of preaching as well.
The disciples exchanged glances, finding the same expression on one another's faces.
It was a complicated mixture of reverence, fervor, confusion, and a faint sense of not knowing whether to laugh or cry.
A long, long time passed.
Only when Gu Changqing's swaying figure vanished completely in the direction of Changqing Hall did everyone come back to their senses, as though waking from a dream.
The crowd stirred again.
"Is... is Senior Brother Changqing really just leaving like that?"
"What... what should we do?"
"What is this method even called? And what was that protective power all about?"
Countless questions surfaced in the disciples' hearts once more, throwing their newly settled thoughts back into turmoil.
Just then,