Ao Tu recalled what had happened earlier.
At the time, he had stood upon the Great Dao, about to attain the Buddhahood of the Attainment of the Dao, when, somehow, the Plain-Colored Cloud-Realm Banner had appeared on his shoulder.
Then...
Ao Tu sensed something amiss.
It seemed that only after the Plain-Colored Cloud-Realm Banner appeared on his shoulder had he remembered his true heart and subsequently abandoned the fruition of Buddhahood.
When had it happened!
Ao Tu's expression remained unchanged, but his heart suddenly grew heavy.
The methods of certain great wielders of Supernatural Abilities truly were impossible to guard against.
Ao Tu took the Plain-Colored Cloud-Realm Banner off his shoulder and returned it to Hong'er, then silently moved a little farther away.
He took out the Black Origin Water-Control Banner and wrapped it around himself, setting the World-Cleansing White Lotus above his head to ensure that he would not be affected by anything.
Then Ao Tu considered once again whether he should attain the Buddhahood of the Attainment of the Dao.
The answer was naturally obvious.
Ao Tu discovered that he could not even begin to understand his earlier thinking. He had clearly always wanted to become one of the Primordial Divine Saints or blaze his own Path. Why had he suddenly wanted to attain Buddhahood while standing upon the Great Dao?
What exactly had I been thinking then?
Ao Tu recalled it carefully.
After Patriarch Styx had been defeated by that kind, unnamed senior, he had stood upon the Great Dao, with no one left who could obstruct his Attainment of the Dao.
Yet even then, he had not truly decided to attain Buddhahood.
What had made him resolve to do so was...
Ao Tu remembered.
It was that "kind" senior, who had patted his shoulder and told