Chen Xun's voice grew lower, and his gaze lost all focus.
He Ling drew in a sharp breath. If things had followed her eldest brother's original intentions, wouldn't the Heavenly Dao have been bait for all living beings under heaven? Slaying heaven would not have unlocked the Longevity Laws, but destroyed them utterly...
Then the Eternal Immortal Frontier would likely have waged its great war within the Heavenly Dao, rather than everyone fighting separately.
Even if the Heavenly Dao ultimately perished...
That would have been karma wrought by the living beings themselves. There would have been nothing beyond regret, and it would have been easier for all beings to find peace in their Dao hearts.
The Eternal Immortal Frontier probably would not have fractured in the end, either. Instead, its legacy would have passed steadily from generation to generation, because the mighty of Eternal Antiquity were beginning to wither, and the younger generations would have continued venturing outward, because her eldest brother had not remained to oversee Eternal Antiquity.
In the end...
Her eldest brother and Second Brother would have returned safely, and peace would have reigned under heaven.
As long as her eldest brother was there, none of those things could possibly happen-whether it was the war over the Heavenly Dao, the passing of the older generation, or even the Eternal Ancient Ten Thousand Clans venturing out on their own and gradually forgetting him with the passage of time!
But it seemed that nothing had happened as her eldest brother had envisioned.
Everything had veered off course.
It had led to the War Against Eternal Antiquity, her eldest brother returning to destroy the Heavenly Dao with his own hands, and more...
"It's fine," Chen Xun said quietly. "This works, too. The losses were just a little greater than I