At some unknown point, a white-haired young man had appeared behind Chen Yan.
Perhaps it had been before the True Purity Realm Sage in the dark green Daoist robe appeared.
Of course, it might also have been after everything happened.
In any case, the white-haired young man's appearance had clearly made the True Purity Realm Sage in the dark green Daoist robe before Chen Yan somewhat wary.
That meant that although Chen Yan could not see through the cultivation of the white-haired young man behind him,
he still knew that the man was anything but ordinary.
Most likely, he was another Sage.
Now that Heavenly Monarch Qingluo had fallen and the Great Dao Boundary Stele had collapsed, Sages could practically be found walking everywhere on the Heaven-Stabilizing Continent...
That was not quite accurate, though.
Of the more than three hundred Sages born on the Heaven-Stabilizing Continent who remained active in the world, over two hundred had returned after the Heavenly Monarch's fall.
Yet ever since those True Purity Realm cultivators returned, they had kept an extremely low profile.
Or rather, for the vast majority of Below Immortal Realm cultivators and mortals across the Heaven-Stabilizing Continent's twelve regions, the Heavenly Monarch's fall seemed to have had no visible impact.
Nothing had changed at all.
For the Central Region of the Heaven-Stabilizing Continent, however, that did not seem to be the case.
When the Heavenly Monarch fell and twelve tolls of the Bronze Bell rang across the heavens,
Heaven and earth authority returned to heaven and earth, and the resulting karmic backlash turned tens of millions of mortals traveling to the Heaven-Stabilizing City on pilgrimage into stone statues in an instant.
Then the Southern Bright Sage returned to the Heaven-Stabilizing Continent, and the battle that erupted between him and the Heaven-Stabilizing Sage