Distant Travelers Are All Dandelions

Chen Ping'an had dared to show himself not only because Lu Zhi, one of the Sword Qi Great Wall's ten peak Great Sword Immortals, stood beside him, but more importantly because Chen Chunan would be coming.

Assuming a battle between opponents of roughly equal realms, a Great Sword Immortal might excel at killing, but not necessarily at saving people.

During the earlier assassination atop the city wall, Mi Yu had done his utmost to stop Lie Ji, a Sword Immortal of equal realm and cultivation, yet Mi Yu had still been a step too late.

But with Chen Chunan present, there would certainly be no cause for concern.

After Chen Chunan spoke, he gave that Ascension Realm Great Demon no chance to utter a single word of nonsense. Heaven and earth had already changed.

Chen Ping'an's mind shuddered in an instant. His entire person seemed to reveal an infinitely vast dharma form, suddenly "ascending" to the very highest reaches of the Sky Curtain, enough to overlook the territory of the entire Vast Heaven and Earth. Yet before Chen Ping'an could properly examine it, that enormous dharma form was forcibly condensed in a moment into a Mind Mustard Seed smaller than dust. Not only did it return to the earth, it burrowed into an infinitesimal place where even palm lines seemed to be mountains and rivers.

When Chen Ping'an finally came fully to his senses and turned to look back, a line of Daoist verse naturally surfaced in his mind: "The Dao, as a thing, is only hazy and indistinct, dim and profound; it joins true emptiness, and that is the Great Void."

Behind Chen Ping'an hovered a huge sphere, snowy white and luminous, shimmering with radiance. Pavilions and towers could vaguely be seen within it, along with a great osmanthus