The void behind Gu Changqing began to ripple.

One by one, teal lotus platforms blossomed behind him, and boundless maternal creative qi spewed forth from those lotuses.

They coiled around his arms.

Gu Changqing pressed his palm to the little fox’s forehead.

In that instant, a cluster of teal radiance enveloped them both, like a protective barrier.

Mysterious and obscure laws began to pulse. In that moment, like divine music, a chant arose within the barrier.

The little fox’s riddled body began to heal at a rate visible to the naked eye.

Fur was reborn as pure white fluff rapidly spread over her entire body.

At that moment, all the cultivators were stunned, and looks of profound shock rose on every face!

Everyone stood dumbfounded.

Ever since Gu Changqing stepped into this Forbidden Zone, they had been watching his every move.

Besides the initial few moments when he was moved by what the little fox did for him, afterward he acted as if everything she did was to be expected, regardless of what the little fox did for him.

This guy paid no heed, simply cultivating silently at the side.

Watching this made people furious!

Before this they had even sneered at Gu Changqing’s actions!

His sword heart was destroyed, his dao foundation was ruined!

Unable to sense spiritual qi or laws, any cultivation would be futile.

They had assumed Gu Changqing might have obtained some inheritance or secret technique within the Forbidden Zone.

But they never expected that Gu Changqing would once again step onto a path of cultivation, and this time it seemed to rely merely on his daily few practices.

“How on earth… did he do it!!”

Everyone wore expressions of bewilderment.

Especially many who had wanted to see if they could learn the Heavenly Emperor’s method to rise again.

But it seemed that, right before their eyes, they had learned nothing at all.

“What kind of cultivation method is this? It can even revive flesh from dead bones?”

The scene in the mirror was simply too miraculous for the cultivators.

Even if a Great Emperor wanted to heal someone’s wounds, they could only do it partially. They could never attain anything as miraculous as what they just saw.

Gu Changqing’s healing method.

It was like a dying patient taking a divine medicine and rapidly recovering, or like heavenly bestowed dew that, via some grand reversal technique, restored life.

“It’s not about reviving the dead’s flesh and bones.”

Among those present were veteran prodigies with wide knowledge. “It’s the mobilization of the power of laws that contain tremendous vitality. While it’s not truly reviving the dead, it’s exceptionally effective at healing wounds.”

Although someone was able to give an explanation, that answer still left everyone feeling astonished and shaken.

This could be called a divine technique!

But more importantly, the reality was that Gu Changqing had lost his cultivation—how could he mobilize the power of dao laws?!

How did he mobilize then? From where? By what means?

Everyone was utterly baffled.

This kind of mobilization of power was a path of cultivation they had never seen in all their time on the Beixuan Continent.

“It’s the Heavenly Dao.”

Ye Chen suddenly spoke, “What he cultivates is the Heavenly Dao.”

The man was after all, someone blessed with incredible talent right from the day he was born.

Ye Chen’s path to rise was far broader than others’.

In fact, he had once come into contact with this cultivation method as well, but it was too arduous, so he abandoned it.

He never expected that Gu Changqing would, without any opportunity, have comprehended this cultivation path on his own.

Heavenly Dao?

Everyone was perplexed.

This method of cultivation was far too unfamiliar to them.

At this moment, another cultivator spoke, “I once saw some information about cultivating the ‘Heavenly Dao’ in an ancient book.”

“I do not seek the Dao; the Dao comes naturally. This cultivation path is through perceiving laws and borrowing the power of heaven and earth. It is said that if one reaches the absolute pinnacle of this path, one can command the power of the entire world—i.e., the Heavenly Dao is myself, I am the Heavenly Dao!”

“With a single thought, one can reverse the laws of heaven and earth. Never mind pursuing immortality—one can even resurrect the dead!”

“However, the ancient book only recorded fragments of information, and this cultivation path was long since severed!”

It turned out to be such an unbelievably powerful thing!!!

Everyone was stunned.

The might of this cultivation path exceeded everyone’s expectations.

“Only a short time has passed, and he actually, by himself, hammered out the Heavenly Dao cultivation path,” a cultivator murmured in awe, his voice trembling.

Many other cultivators shared almost identical expressions with this mighty one!

Incomprehensible!

Even though they all knew that the Heavenly Emperor’s cultivation talent was abnormal.

If they mapped his progress against the mainstream cultivation everyone practiced now, in merely one year he had been able to overthrow a Saint King despite being only at Great Power!

When he cultivated Sword Dao, in just four years he had reached Supreme stage, easily killing peers in an instant!

They thought this was already insane enough.

Yet unexpectedly, after the Heavenly Emperor’s dao foundation was destroyed and he self-destroyed his sword heart, he managed to turn misfortune into blessing and once again comprehended a path even more powerful than any other!

“Is he… even human?!”

At this moment, who knows how many people were cursing inwardly.