The Dagger Revealed

"So, I invited you all here for tea—and don't worry too much. This is only the beginning..."

Seeing their urgency, Heng Hua instead regained his composed bearing and said calmly, "This time, we need only make slight adjustments, guide the flow of vital qi back onto its original course, and maintain it for one or two hundred years."

Zhongli Zihan. "One or two hundred years?"

The cycles of birth and death, rise and decline, had their ordained limits. The great change in vital qi after Continent Overturning had originally been only a stopgap measure. As the restoration of the Divine Continent progressed, the tides of vital qi had already been gradually returning to the state of the Divine Land Era. By Heng Hua's estimation, a true upheaval in vital qi would arrive roughly two hundred years from now.

It could not be changed by human power. They could only allow the vital qi system, which had been making do in a temporary and unstable state, to truly return to a period of calm.

By then, the collapse of the vital qi tides would no longer be triggered by merely a dozen or so Heavenly Book inheritors and an Immortal Ascension Isle that had only just been built.

The crowd began discussing in low voices.

Heng Hua continued in a clear voice.

"Everyone, so what if vital qi undergoes a great change? Destruction before establishment is not merely a disaster—it is also a blessing.

"What we must do is not lock the current vital qi configuration in place and delay the moment when vital qi is destroyed and reestablished. We must instead make certain repairs and ease the pressure, so that under our guidance, the vital qi tides may smoothly complete their next transformation in structure."

Dragon Daoist murmured, "Can that