While Jiang Qiong was still questioning Gu An, the blood-red eye within the black rift at the edge of the sky slowly closed and vanished into the darkness. Immediately after, that black rift also began to shrink, until it disappeared without a trace.
Gu An withdrew his gaze, lowered his eyes to the archipelago below, and said, "He is too far from us. So far that, for the time being, I cannot reach him."
"Even you cannot reach him? Where is he?"
Following his words, Jiang Qiong asked curiously.
She truly was curious. She could not even imagine how great a distance Gu An could cross.
Within the entire Heavenly Dao, Gu An could surely come and go as he pleased. Could that eye just now have been outside the Heavenly Dao?
Jiang Qiong did not know how vast the Heavenly Dao was. If that eye really was beyond the Heavenly Dao, then what kind of terrifying existence would it have to be?
"Farther than you can imagine. A place even the Immortal Gods in the heavens cannot reach."
Gu An's answer sent Jiang Qiong into boundless reverie.
Wait!
Gu An had said "for the time being." Did that not mean he was confident he could surpass all the Immortal Gods?
Jiang Qiong looked at Gu An and thought of the scene when they had first met years ago. Back then, Gu An had been so nervous and constrained before her, utterly unlike his calm, unruffled manner now, as if they were two different people.
At that time, how could she have imagined he was so formidable?
Everyone else felt Gu An might have deliberately hidden his cultivation and entered the world, but Jiang Qiong felt Gu An might truly only have had that little bit of cultivation back then.