"In today's Immortal Realm, the Great Dao Markings are complete and already formed. This ranking no longer needs to exist. Yet the Eternal Immortal Frontier's whereabouts are uncertain. Time and again, I stood before the Human Dao Pavilion, wishing to ask the Eternal Immortal Frontier to return the Dao to Heaven, but I received not a trace of response. From then on, I knew that the Liu and Shi clans of Eternal Antiquity harbored selfish intentions."
"...They have even turned this ranking into a means of restraining and striking at Immortal Realm Cultivators."
As those words fell, the expressions of countless cultivators across the Three Thousand Immortal Territories changed, and an uncontrollable uproar suddenly arose between heaven and earth.
Qi Qianqiu's aura blazed like the sun, his gaze deep and steady as an abyss. His voice shook the heavens:
“Though I stand alone and cannot erase all ten thousand Dao upon the Great Dao Ranking, I am the Formation Dao Patriarch. What I bear in this life should not be the safety of my own body, but a chance at survival for the younger cultivators of the Formation Dao!”
"Rather than let it become an Immortal Dao that others may erase at will. That would be no different from directly wiping away the future of their immortal paths."
His back stood towering and peerless, his words like blades that slashed apart all confusion and regret from the outside world.
"Eternal Immortal Frontier!"
"I, Qi Qianqiu—I, Qi Qianqiu, establish Heaven with arrays today, bear the Dao with Heaven, and protect arrays with the Dao! If you are dissatisfied, then bring down the wrath of thunder. I alone will bear it!"
“Since I dared to publicly erase the name of the Formation Dao today, I had long since left myself no road