Round Heaven, Square Earth

Central Continent.

Within the canopy of sky where yin and yang intertwined, a new star was slowly rising, heading toward the eastern sunrise.

At the peak of Kunling Mountain.

A figure stood with his hands behind his back, gazing into the distance.

He wore a Daoist robe like rosy mist and cloud haze. His aura was vast and desolate, and every movement carried the mighty power between Heaven and Earth.

He was the current Immortal Alliance Leader, the Spirit Transmutation Celestial Venerable who had governed This World for more than ten thousand years—Grandmaster Taixuan.

At this moment, he raised his head to gaze at the sky. Yet reflected in his cold, emotionless black eyes was not the sky before him, but a boundless azure sea.

Within that sea were a gigantic Sea Market like a Floating Island, the awakened phantom of an ancient Kunpeng, the descent of Celestial Venerable Canghai, Star Chess played across the Nine Heavens, and that figure's... face.

Even across hundreds of millions of miles, separated by the changing difference between day and night, everything that this new star had once experienced appeared in Grandmaster Taixuan's eyes without the slightest discrepancy.

His figure simply stood atop the mountain peak, his eyes reflecting everything that happened hundreds of millions of miles away. Neither sorrowful nor joyful, neither startled nor angry, he stood with his hands behind his back and watched that slowly ascending star. Like a statue frozen for ages, he did not move in the slightest for a long, long time.

"Alliance Leader."

At that moment, a streak of spiritual light suddenly flew over from afar and descended, revealing the figure within.

The newcomer was none other than Li Mingzhen, the Taiyi Xuanmen Daoist disciple who had risked his life alongside Lin Chen in the Sea Market.