After Chen Yang and the other four left the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion, they immediately headed for the Outrealm Battlefield, gathering the remaining two peak cultivators along with Bai Di, whose cultivation had already fallen.
As they sorted through the intelligence currently in hand, they also began adding more concrete courses of action to the framework of Bai Di's plan, assigning responsibilities to the cultivators from every faction involved in this grand scheme.
What none of them knew was that, as they gathered to deliberate, a gaze from far above the land of the Azure Waves Continent was looking down upon everything now unfolding in Azure Waves through a special Dao-observation method.
Heavenly Sea Domain, Dao King Mountain.
A month earlier, Zhang Minghe had already returned to the mountain gate from the Wave-Chasing Sea Pavilion.
Over the past month, her master had brought her along to observe the Dao beside a small pool of water within a mountain cave dwelling.
It was called Dao observation, but with Zhang Minghe's own cultivation and comprehension, all she could see were a few drifting, fleeting glimmers.
Fortunately, her talent and insight far surpassed those of ordinary people. Even amid such abstract imagery, she was still able to catch fragments of inspiration.
A month was no more than the flick of a finger to a cultivator at her level—not a particularly long time—but Zhang Minghe had nevertheless wondered why her master had chosen this Land Where the Dao Ends as his place to observe the Dao.
She watched that small, tranquil surface of water, her gaze and divine sense fixed upon several specks of light floating over it. Every so often, a few phantom images burst forth from those points of light, and she caught every one of them without fail.
This kind of Dao