What Meng Tianzheng did not know, however, was that in the original storyline, many Heavenly Prodigies would eventually enter the Immortal Domain. The Great Dao of heaven and earth was whole there, so naturally, many paths could be followed to their end.
As things stood, Grand Elder Meng Tianzheng felt utterly hopeless. He truly grieved for these Heavenly Prodigies. Had heaven and earth remained whole, they might all have become Supremes, True Immortals, or even Immortal Kings.
But the Great Dao of the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths was now incomplete and no longer permitted that, unless they created methods that depended less on it, or followed his proposed using the body as a seed: gathering all the Dao and methods of the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths to fulfill one person, making them a child of the Great Dao, the darling of the myriad Daos.
The path of using the body as a seed that Shi Hao followed differed from the Grand Elder's vision. Instead, he truly blazed an invincible path that relied on himself, with the Great Dao merely supporting him.
Since returning, Shi Hao had been through several things and was hoping to find some time to talk with Xiao Tian. Then he saw Xiao Tian's decidedly hostile gaze, and guilt stirred within him.
He really saw it. Even if he did, that's fine. Surely he couldn't have heard all those things I said praising him, too?
Impossible. Absolutely impossible.
Shi Hao reassured himself.
Just then!
"Ah, a Jade Scripture!" someone exclaimed.
As purple qi rose in billows, Xiao Tian's confidante, Witch, seemingly let something good slip into view by accident while taking stock of her spoils.
The piece of jade was shaped like a book. It shone with holy light, wreathed in a hazy purple radiance