The immortal light of Seeing and hearing intertwined into a mirage. Xu Huaizhang's black hair streamed in the wind, two locks at his frost-white temples seeming dyed with snow. This scroll of Immortal Dao Nine Chapters had been passed down from the end of the Mythic Era, crossing eighteen thousand years of the Era of Immortals, the Era of One Truth that flashed by like a meteor, the chaotic ages after One Truth's collapse... all the way to this day, Dao Calendar New Beginning 3930.
By a rough count, that was already more than thirty thousand years!
The long river of more than thirty thousand years flowed through this immortal master's gaze. The immortal intent of Seeing and hearing seemed ready to break free from this legendary figure's eyes, stirring restlessly as though seeking ascension!
Jiang Wang did not hesitate. He spread his five fingers and reached out—
In that instant, his five fingers became mountains, blotting out the sky as they rapidly swelled within the river of time, as though he meant to take that world, that era, into his grasp. His encounter with Xu Huaizhang had begun because of the <Blood Demon Art of Extinguishing Emotion and Desire> and Cloud Peak Immortal Palace. Now, he accepted both bonds, both strands of karma.
Xu Huaizhang merely stood upon the mountain path in that time and space, casting him a distant gaze that seemed to ask—had he made up his mind?
More than thirty thousand years of time were linked by a single jade slip. Jiang Wang held one end of time, while Xu Huaizhang held its far shore.
Today, it was no longer possible to experience Xu Huaizhang's strength. Yet Jiang Wang stood quietly in his green robes, already at the extraordinary limit of the new era.
He linked