What he admired was the courage to stake one's life on a struggle, to truly strive for "my fate is mine to decide." At the last moment, Xie Jiuxiao had finally ceased to be the "overcautious, dithering man" the Heavenly Dao had defined him as, breaking through the limitations of his own character.
But Yan Qianlie's expression was rather strange.
Because he knew perfectly well that Xie Jiuxiao still had not understood the nature of the Heavenly Dao-he thought that once he died, the Heavenly Dao could no longer touch him. In fact, the Heavenly Dao could bring him back to life at any moment. It did not even require any power of creation, only a single revision from Chu Ge. If the established plot did not permit you to die, you would not die, just like when Chu Ge had revised his White Flame.
Even his belief that "I am important, and my death will greatly affect the course of the Heavenly Dao" did not make him as important as he imagined.
Perhaps, as one of the pillars of the Orthodox Path, with Skyreach City a major orthodox sect, Xie Jiuxiao had a relatively important role to play later. But he was not the protagonist. That damned Heavenly Dao only needed to add a line of setting-"Xie Jiuxiao died after a failed attempt to force his ascension, and Xie Yuner inherited his legacy"-then give Xie Yuner a cheat, and there would be practically no effect on the world's course...
Even death was useless. He could not die even if he wanted to.
But Xie Jiuxiao's desire and determination to decide his own fate deserved respect.
Yan Qianlie knew he had been outdone, at least in this matter.
There truly were heroes among the Orthodox Path. Even if, in Chu