Back then, the Azure-Robed Dao Ancestor had intended to hide from the Final Tribulation Beyond the Heavens, but Taiyi Dao Lord had feared he would seize his opportunity and ambushed him.
Although the Azure-Robed Dao Ancestor had not been badly injured, recuperating had cost him the ability to contend for that opportunity.
The seed he had left behind had not been meant to compete for that opportunity either. It had merely been intended to avenge that ambush.
As Xu Changxing continually expanded that Great Dao, he had also keenly discovered the true value of that Small World.
Its sole purpose was to expose Taiyi Dao Lord's aura to the Final Tribulation, allowing it to lock onto him, a "remnant of the former dynasty."
Taiyi Dao Lord had never imagined the Azure-Robed Dao Ancestor would be so resolute.
That was precisely why the Final Tribulation had unwittingly weakened his cultivation to this extent.
In truth, given Taiyi Dao Lord's arrangements, even after the Azure-Robed Dao Ancestor's scheme, he could still have controlled Xu Changxing through his mastery of the Heavenly Dao Painting.
Yet Xu Changxing and Tianyuan, two Daluo, had actually reshaped the Heavenly Dao Painting and cast off their shackles.
Taiyi Dao Lord felt as though a star of calamity had possessed him. Every worst possible outcome had erupted at this very moment.
Let alone competing with Xu Changxing for World-Creation Merit, even escaping unscathed would probably be extraordinarily difficult now.
After his expression shifted violently several times, he abruptly slashed a hand before him, attempting to escape first.
But the moment he moved, a streak of sword light pierced him.
Taiyi Dao Lord stiffened all over, yet still intended to continue fleeing.
But how could Xu Changxing give him that chance?
Before Taiyi Dao Lord could turn around, the