Those cracks became even more evident under the sunlight, but Wei Qingye himself seemed completely unfazed. He even asked, puzzled:

"What's wrong?"

"Is there something strange about me?"

Li Ye said nothing, directly using the Emotion Song to convey what he saw to Wei Qingye. After seeing it, a visible seriousness appeared on Wei Qingye's face.

"Brother Li."

He forced a smile: "Before I was struck by the Heavenly Veins back then, I had such signs, which means..."

"Could there be a Fall of the Heavenly Veins here?"

Li Ye's expression also turned somber.

This is the Eastern Sun Sea. If fragments of the Heavenly Veins were to fall here, how great an impact would it have on a sea that the Four Seasons Sect had already organized to be so 'obedient'?

"Yes."

"Moreover."

"It seems like..."

As he was speaking.

Suddenly.

A peculiar wave of Spiritual Energy instantly swept across the entire Eastern Sun Sea. Subsequently, some cracks densely appeared on the heavenly dome, followed by a cyan-blue meteor streaking through with a long tail flame as it fell.

All the cultivators in the Eastern Sun Sea sensed this phenomenon, and the Nascent Souls and deities of the Four Seasons Sect naturally detected it first.

However, they were unable to stabilize the world.

This change in the Heavenly Veins is indeed a celestial phenomenon.

Even the Celestial Vein Sword Mountain, which had studied it for so long and left so many backhands in the world, couldn't do anything about it, and naturally, neither could the Four Seasons Sect.

Fortunately, the Four Seasons Sect reacted with extreme speed.

After a brief Divine Sense exchange, the True Men made a decision—

They immediately cut off all access in and out of the Eastern Sun Sea, and then transmitted a voice across the entire sea:

"Everyone."

"It seems that a Heavenly Veins Fall incident has occurred."

"Please respond with caution. If you are seeking Heavenly Veins opportunities, the Four Seasons Sect is not responsible for any casualties."

This voice instantly spread throughout the entire sea, and at each of the Four Seasons Sect True Men's Dao arenas, sect members arrived to ask that the True Men raise Spiritual Power arrays to mitigate the impact of the direct fall of the Heavenly Veins.

And at the merfolk fishing grounds, before the merfolk could even react, gentle moonlight scattered over the sea, illuminating it in a snowy white. Whenever a Heavenly Vein fell into it, it would be swallowed by the moonlight.

—But more cultivators didn't care about being hit or even injured in the struggle for the Heavenly Veins. These were Heavenly Veins! As long as they could obtain some Heavenly Veins, they could gain the divine techniques left by the sect's ancestors within them.

In other words, those are the true 'Divine Powers to Open the Heavens.'

How could those pursuing the Dao hide from an opportunity?

So the cultivators of the entire Eastern Sun Sea boiled with excitement, even those on Ruoquan Island couldn't wait to rush out, afraid of falling behind others.

They even felt somewhat grateful to Li Ye, for if it weren't for Li Ye's sun awakening them, would they not still be asleep and thus miss the opportunity?

Li Ye didn't concern himself with these people.

Robbing someone of their opportunity is akin to killing their parents. If they wish to go, they may do so, as long as he takes care of himself.

The bright moonlight shone beside Li Ye, from within which came Wangshu's voice: "Brother, be careful."

"This should have something to do with what your master is doing."

"The Hell Path should be emerging."

After these words, the consciousness in the moonlight receded like a tide, but the moonlight itself did not leave. It not only shielded Ruoquan Island, but also extended protection over the surrounding hundred thousand miles of sea area.

Yet it did not stop the Heavenly Veins from falling into the sea.

—Although these fragments of the Heavenly Veins would cause unpredictable changes to the sea creatures, on the whole, it was still good. If Li Ye could grasp this opportunity, it might advance the development of the sea area by at least a hundred or even a thousand years.

Because such a large-scale fall of the Heavenly Veins is rarely seen even in the Southern Domain.

"So, did you bring this?" Li Ye cast a glance at Wei Qingye, with a very pronounced teasing tone.

The latter rolled his eyes: "If I could summon a fall of the Heavenly Veins, I would have long been revered by the sect, instead of scouring around for opportunities... Ouch!"

He hadn't finished his words.

Somewhere unexpectedly, a massive fragment of the Heavenly Veins came crashing down, ignoring the canopy of Li Ye's Ruo Wood and the array, landing directly on Wei Qingye's head.

In an instant, his head was bleeding profusely.

Blood flowed down in torrents.

Wei Qingye calmly wiped his face: "It's okay."

"..."

Li Ye silently took a step back.

Then, after he took a step back, several more fragments of the Heavenly Veins came hurtling down at Wei Qingye, forcing him to scramble away, unable to strike back.

These falls of the Heavenly Veins brought about changes in the surrounding spiritual Qi, the complex and chaotic spiritual Qi directly preventing the sword cultivator from using divine techniques and magic to resist.

"..."

"I almost forgot how unlucky you are."

Li Ye watched Wei Qingye flee everywhere, not knowing what to say for a moment—the fellow's escape was so practiced, indicating this wasn't his first time running like this.

Running while he said: "No matter, at Sword Mountain, almost every time the Heavenly Veins fell, I got hit a few times, I'm long used to it, do your thing."

"Right, if you want to catch some Heavenly Veins, come by me... no, I'll help you catch a few, as it seems if you come over they'll disappear."

He was adept at running, dodging, getting hit, and catching the Heavenly Veins all at once, and seeing this made Li Ye a bit dazed—this fellow's actions were too absurd.

However.

Li Ye soon had no energy left to pay this any mind.

For his senior brother arrived seriously at his side and said to him: "The Hell Path is emerging."

"So, this is the doing of the Hell Path?" Li Ye hurried towards the small courtyard while dragging along his senior brother, asking.

"Yes, and no."

The senior brother's small face wrinkled up as he was tugged along by Li Ye: "I reckon some occurrence requires the fall of the Heavenly Veins to resolve. Unfortunately, we cannot communicate with the Celestial Dao; otherwise, we could inquire."

Upon hearing this.

Li Ye glanced at the glazed bracelet on his wrist, which at this moment shone not a single brilliance, silent as a chicken.

This meant that the Celestial Dao at least hadn't given him any explicit mandate.

Or, to take an extreme guess, this mutation might relate to some deeper intention of the Celestial Dao.

That would be very troublesome.

This sudden, somewhat extreme circumstance made Li Ye feel rather uncomfortable, as if beyond his expectations. He was completely unprepared.

Moreover, he inexplicably had a feeling.

That it might be related to the sun he had birthed.

According to the Four Seasons Sect's explanation, the Ruo Wood that once gave birth to his senior brother was a node or rule in the Eastern Sun Sea, but back then he had not fulfilled his 'mission.'

Yet today the sun is born this way.

Does that mean the mission now has a chance of being accomplished, thus leading to such celestial phenomena?

This was merely an intuition.

When he arrived at his small courtyard, where an observation point was set up allowing one to see the location the sect had prepared for the Hell Path to emerge, namely the Falling Star Sea,

The scene that emerged there was completely beyond his expectations.

—First, there was a deathly gray mountain peak, its grimness like a barrier between life and death appeared abruptly above the sea, standing firm among the falling Heavenly Veins.

And within the phantom of the mountain was a scene of beauty worthy of a Buddhist Pure Land, with fruits ripe year-round, never withering across all seasons. People there neither worked nor labored, their faces full of happiness.

The contrast between the gray mountain and the pure land-like scenery was exceedingly stark, and its mere surface gave Li Ye an intense pull.

Even he felt a desire to enter that pure land.

Forsake the vexations and troubles of the mortal world...

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