Hm?
When Ryu looked up, the geniuses subconsciously turned away. Even they didn't realize why they had done it, but what was certain was that the moment they did, they felt their hearts sink as though they had lost something forever.
At that moment, the tower doors opened once again, and Mae and Aantha stepped out.
Before Ryu could say anything, however, everything shifted. Under the shocked realization of everyone present, the Heavenly Path was closing.
Ryu realized this as well, and he felt a hint of lament. Before he had been forced to run to the diamond city, he had sensed the remnants of a Dao Lord's Inheritance. Of course, this wasn't the inheritance of the Chaotic Space Dao Sovereign, but rather the inheritance of the Dao Lord that had originally descended first only to find their glass orb shattered by the Dao Sovereign.