Even though the Human Heavenly Emperor had severed all causal links between his various clones, those causal threads remained in existence.
Though he had cut them, those deeper layers of causality could still be detected by Chu Yuan. This was a matter of conceptual depth, and Chu Yuan’s cultivation was so immense—surpassing his opponent by an entire major realm—that what the Human Heavenly Emperor believed to be an absence of causality was, to Chu Yuan, easily traceable.
In that moment, a Returning-to-Mortal Ancestor God perished at Chu Yuan’s hands.
Chapter 246