Entering Eastern Sea

Two months later.

Somewhere in the Eastern Sea.

Fang Yuan and Tai Bai Yun Sheng stood silently atop the clouds, waiting for Shark Demon and the others.

The sun was setting, and a vast stretch of fiery clouds blazed across the west. The sea beneath their feet had also been dyed red.

Waves rolled in succession, the billows rising and falling with elegant grace. The rosy light reflected atop the wave crests was bright red and dazzling, echoing the fiery clouds at the horizon in breathtaking beauty.

"Whenever I see such beautiful scenery, I often stop in my tracks, immersed in it and struck with awe." Tai Bai Yun Sheng's gaze was deep and distant as he sighed. "Now I can be considered one who has attained the Dao and ascended to immortality, yet I feel even more deeply the grandeur of this vast and natural heaven and earth. It makes one feel small, feel humble. Compared to heaven and earth, man truly is insignificant. Perhaps only a Rank 9 Gu Venerable is qualified to contend with heaven and earth. I certainly cannot."

Fang Yuan laughed heartily. "Brother Tai Bai, you must not belittle yourself. Do you remember the story of the little people in The Legend of Human Ancestor? Since we have realized our own smallness, we should become stronger still. We were small from the beginning; we have merely changed from ignorant to knowing. You feel pain because you are growing."

"Xing Xiangzi, you are still so full of soaring ambition. Hahaha..." Tai Bai Yun Sheng was stunned for a moment, then burst into hearty laughter.

As the two conversed, a Gu Immortal suddenly rose from the sea beneath their feet.

"Who goes there?" Fang Yuan shouted.

"My two lords, please do not take offense. I am Sha