As soon as Bai Di finished speaking, the crimson incense stick Bai Ming had become burned away in an instant.
Pale pink incense smoke rose slowly and was gradually drawn into the Dao Gate before him.
When the last of the smoke was gone, the eight Dao patterns on the gate turned into eight streaks of light and flew into Bai Di's heart.
By sacrificing his own son, Bai Di had obtained the insights of those eight Dao patterns outright. He would have to comprehend the remaining seven himself.
Only by fully comprehending all fifteen Dao patterns would he complete his undertaking and enter the Profound Insight realm.
Otherwise, he would die here, his Dao extinguished with him.
As he knocked on the Dao Gate, the soul fragments of Lang Xiao and the other two sensed it as well. Linked in mind and spirit, they gradually drew out the potential of Azure Flame's remains, driving their cultivation straight toward True Intent Perfection.
Luo Qianchou's side was faring better. With the imitation Heaven-Reaching Pagoda and the combined aid of eight righteous-path cultivators at the True Intent realm, they could still suppress the soul fragments of Cui Shenyoo and Hu Pengxiao.
On the other side, however, Nangong Jinghe was beginning to struggle to keep Lang Xiao's soul fragment suppressed.
Though the fragment had lost contact with his true body in the Void Realm, it had already fused with Azure Flame's remains, so it was not greatly affected. He simply could no longer learn what was happening in the Upper Realm.
"Fellow Daoist Nangong! We all descended to the Lower Realm in search of an opportunity for Creation. Why fight like this and make things difficult for each other?"
Feeling his cultivation rise, Old Demon Lang Xiao's soul fragment gradually regained his confidence.