--A transition chapter, so it was over 3,900 characters, hence the delay. Well, requesting recommendation votes.
The moment Mo Jingqiu saw Shi Xuan and Xiao Honghua, whom Shi Xuan had suppressed with the Fate Destroying Scroll, memories immediately flashed through her Primordial Spirit—back when she had just passed Lifespan Decay, when Shi Xuan and Patriarch Xuansiao had spoken at length of their experiences in the Chaotic Primordial Era, stirring her own heart and filling her with longing. Combined with the truth of Dao Heart Decay she had understood after enduring the recent questioning of her Dao heart, how could she possibly fail to guess that this had all been a painstaking arrangement by Shi Xuan and Patriarch Xuansiao?
She smiled radiantly. "I was wondering why a Half-step Golden Immortal had set his sights on me for no good reason. I was truly wronged beyond measure. So it was you, Shi Xuan, stirring things up behind the scenes. Weren't you afraid I'd perish directly beneath Dao Heart Decay?"
"If even a Heavenly Sovereign like you, Jingqiu—untempted by anything, unafraid of any hardship, and always holding fast to your True Heart—could not pass Dao Heart Decay, then throughout the Myriad Worlds, I fear that apart from figures like Daoist Yujing, there would no longer be any cultivators capable of proving the Dao of Great Luo." Shi Xuan answered with a smile, utterly confident in Mo Jingqiu.
The key to Dao Heart Decay lay entirely in one's ordinary days, in every little detail after achieving Primordial Spirit. By the time one had passed the Four-Nine Tribulation and the first four Heavenly Human Calamities, the accumulated weight had become impossible to reverse. Those who could pass would do so as naturally as water flowing into a channel; those who could not, aside from