At the time, Shi Xuan had directly "smelled" from those seven words an ominous scent of a Golden Immortal War triggered by the Book of Life and Death. Yet the celestial phenomenon of the Fate Destroying Scroll's successful partial refinement and the changes in the Great Dao had lasted only an instant, leaving Shi Xuan no time to think further.
Only after my Fate Destroying Scroll was half complete, giving me something else to conceal the origins of my Auspicious Cloud, did the Life and Death Dao Ancestor withdraw the Book of Life and Death. It seemed he had not regarded me as an abandoned pawn.
In a flash of lightning and flint, Shi Xuan made his decision. The Book of Life and Death flew out from within his Primordial Spirit and completely fused with the "Life and Death Limitless Transcendence Auspicious Cloud" formed from its power, restoring it to its complete state. At the same time, with a single thought, Shi Xuan erased his imprint from the central restriction of the Life and Death Dao Embryo.
Then an ethereal, shadowy aura, faint and obscure, impossible to distinguish between life and death, filtered through from the unseen and instantly took complete control of the Life and Death Dao Embryo's restrictions.
The abilities of a Dao Ancestor were beyond imagination—and this had even been his body in a previous life!
With the Book of Life and Death concealing him, and the Life and Death Dao Ancestor adding his own measures to Shi Xuan's Primordial Spirit, Shi Xuan could withstand the aftermath of the fight between Dao Ancestors for an instant, giving him a chance to escape.
Once the celestial phenomenon and the Great Dao's changes subsided, Shi Xuan had initially worried about how to "reasonably expose the Life and Death Dao