Gui-Zhe Holy Mountain, halfway up the rear mountain, Great Evolution Grotto-Heaven.
As things changed and stars shifted, as cold and heat alternated, the wind and snow of the Holy Mountain blew into the bamboo grove carpeting the ground and became a spring breeze.
Amid the rustling, layer upon layer of the Heavenly Secrets Grand Formation here collapsed, vanishing at its central point.
"Crack."
The ground split open at its center, and a flawless jade-white hand reached out from within.
The jade hand's fingers were long and slender in perfect proportion, like the most exquisite sculpture between heaven and earth. No veins or pores could be seen, yet Heavenly Secrets runes flowed faintly within it, brimming with vitality.
Layer upon layer of transformations within the Great Evolution Grotto-Heaven rapidly flowed into that jade hand.
Soon, it moved again.
"Riiip..."
The jade hand pressed against the ground and pushed down hard, drawing out a half-naked handsome man with perfectly proportioned features and an extraordinary appearance.
His black hair cascaded like a waterfall, hanging smooth and soft. The muscle lines of his neck, chest, abdomen, and elsewhere were incomparably fluid, their color lustrous like fine jade.
The moment he emerged from the ground, seemingly unable to bear the light, the man turned his head and squinted for a while before gradually adapting.
"In the blink of an eye, thirty years had passed. One cycle of reincarnation in the mortal world..."
After a brief daze, the man pulled himself fully out of the earth. He wore not a scrap of clothing, with heaven and earth as his garments.
When he took his first step, all things in the Great Evolution Grotto-Heaven died. All spiritual energy gathered and took form, condensing into a plain, thin white robe upon him.
When he took his second step,