Kunlun Star Palace, the Jade Character Lineage's mountain peak.
Atop the mountain, a sealed dojo burst with countless rays of starlight. They gathered in the sky, forming a Star Gate.
A towering Star Spirit emerged, clad in an imperial robe and crown, with a red-jade Deification List in his hand.
A crimson-gold divine edict shone between the towering Star Spirit's brows, unleashing waves of crimson-gold divine light. A canopy of divine radiance formed above him, while a divine hall took shape faintly around it.
The towering Star Spirit, shrouded in starlight and divine radiance, swept his gaze across the surroundings and spoke in a low voice, full of emotion:
"One dream, a hundred years; I have united with the Dao and returned to truth! Only today do I know that I am myself!"
In the next moment, the crimson-gold divine edict between his brows, the canopy of divine radiance above his head, the divine light around him, and the faintly visible divine hall all withdrew and vanished into his body. In their place stood only a Star Spirit Giant shimmering with starlight.
Halfway up the mountain, Liang Ji, Ge Yuan Chao, Bian Yujiao, Chen Zhao, Liu Xu, Qi Changge, and many other familiar and unfamiliar senior students gathered. They all bowed toward the Star Spirit Giant atop the peak and called out, "We welcome you back from seclusion, Mentor! You have succeeded in Dao Integration, and sainthood is within your reach!"
Mentor Chi Yu had served as a mentor in Kunlun Star Palace's Jade Character Lineage for many years. Naturally, Liang Ji, Bian Yujiao, Qi Changge, and the others were not his only students. Their group could only be called the last batch he had taken in before entering seclusion to advance.
Before them had come many other generations of