Nothing Gained?

Sword Ancestor?!

Why was the Sword Ancestor in Qingxu?!

Staring at those eyes lit with a faint red glow, Gu was utterly aghast.

Before he could react, streak after streak of crimson sword radiance had already pierced through the boundary between the present world and the past. Countless sword lights flared atop the river of time, seeking to sever and isolate the span of time in which he stood.

He could feel the stretch of time around him being continuously carved apart by sword light, drawing ever closer to the present world.

Yet faced with such peril, Gu showed little panic.

Streams of seven-colored radiance scattered from his body, drifting in every direction and vanishing into countless fragments of the 'past.'

"When did you discover me?"

As an innate Dao Attainment who controlled the Past Domain, perhaps his combat strength was rather ordinary—but when it came to preserving his life...

Even the Sword Ancestor or Xuan could not possibly kill him while he remained in the 'past'!

Yet he could not understand the situation now.

Why had the Sword Ancestor and the Charm Ancestor come to Qingxu at this point in time as well?

Could it be that they, too, suspected that the anomaly during the previous Dao Attainment had something to do with 'Tai'?

"When I discovered you."

Gu: "..."

"Still, I'm rather curious. Why did you come to Qingxu?"

Within Xu Xing's red-glowing eyes, countless sword shadows seemed to interweave. As the 'past' was ceaselessly pierced through by sword light, even its boundary with the 'present world' appeared to be blurring.

Gu no longer retained the image of a towering divine being from before. All that remained was a Years Divine Ring flowing with endless shifting light and shadow. At the very center of the divine ring lay