After leaving those words in Bai Di's mind, the Demonic Path Treading Void cultivator's thought returned to the Void Realm through the rift in the sky.
Bai Di sat alone on the lotus dais and quietly began to think.
He knew what this old monster of the Void Realm was plotting. It was also from him that Bai Di had first learned a series of details about the Treasure of Creation.
But he certainly would not believe everything the old monster had told him about matters beyond the heavens.
Given the old monster's desire for the so-called spirit of creation, he had every reason to drive a wedge between Bai Di and Wu Chang so he could seize the treasure for himself.
The grand plan to revive the path to enlightenment was at a critical juncture. Though there had been a string of unexpected complications, Bai Di was still more inclined to trust Wu Chang, who had worked with him for over a century.
Yet the two key figures the old monster had mentioned troubled him.
When the old monster spoke of those two righteous Treading Void cultivators in the Lower Realm—one a Dao Academy cultivator who had started anew, the other a fragment of the Nangong Clan ancestor's soul—Bai Di barely had to think before their identities sprang to mind.
The first was plainly Luo Qianchou, once an unrivaled prodigy of the righteous path, later the commander of the Southwest demon-suppression campaign, and the personal disciple of Lingxiao Dao Academy's master.
The second needed even less thought. He matched the rumored "Orphan of Void Stepping" perfectly. It had to be Nangong Jinghe.
Once he had identified them, some of the doubts that had weighed on Bai Di for so long finally found answers.
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