Xuan BaiShe stood at the center of the now perfectly smooth plain of ashes, the wake of his devouring having erased every last trace of life or death within a radius of several kilometers.
His eyes, ink black with violet pupils, fixed on the horizon where the silhouette of the Great Pagoda of Sealing seemed to mock the gray immensity of the tomb. His Omega Heart beat with sovereign power, infusing his Dantian with purified Khao energy that firmly stabilized his second stage of Overlord.
He had initially intended to hunt down Chong Da immediately to put a premature end to the Path of Humans, but his strategist mind, inherited from his Immortal Sage Heart, imposed a more nuanced reflection.
' Chong Da possesses fifty thousand points of luck. At this level of fortune, the Dao protects its chosen one with an almost desperate fervor. Killing him now would risk triggering a karmic backlash that even my Devourer Physique would have trouble digesting without issue.'
