What is the last missing link to step into the Worldly Realm? Zhao Douan couldn't say.
Perhaps it differs for every cultivator, but for him, it's the disconnection from this world.
Having been in this world for a year, he wandered among the temples, navigating complexities, seemingly boundless in glory, yet he always lacked a genuine feeling for this world.
And at this moment, as he witnessed those people, like wild grass in a sea of flowers, being casually dealt with by the soldiers, the cruel and rustic other side of this world that he had experienced during his escape finally unfurled completely before him.
"Ah——"
A cry of terror rang out. In the villagers' eyes, the fierce soldiers slashed at Zhao Douan with long knives, only for them to be suddenly pulled upwards by an invisible force, toward the sky.
At the end of Pei Niannu's weighing pole, countless red threads extended from the crimson tassels, each curling up a sword.
