Great Profound Realm, Sword Sect.
Before the Sword Ancestor Hall, Xu Xing quietly gazed into the distance.
Countless flickering lights and shadows seemed to flow within his eyes, faintly echoing some existence an immeasurable distance away.
Yet if anyone looked closely, they would be unable to make out those shifting lights and shadows at all, seeing only a pair of starkly black-and-white eyes.
After quite a while, the anomaly in Xu Xing's eyes faded. He withdrew his gaze and descended the mountain steps at an unhurried pace.
Before long, wisps of thin mist appeared around him.
And the farther down he went, the thicker the mist became, lowering visibility along with it.
Xu Xing paid it no mind, continuing at the same leisurely pace as he considered what he had just seen.
"The timing of its end was roughly what I expected. What comes next depends on how they choose."
What he referred to was neither within the Great Profound Realm nor the world to which the first batch of Ascension Envoys had gone, but...
The Beast God Realm!
Just moments ago, the Sword Intent Spirit Body Xu Xing had sent back to the Beast God Realm after returning to the Great Profound Realm had confirmed that the war between the Human Race and the Beast God Race had ended, and the flow of time had returned to normal.
It was the first world Xu Xing had explored after proposing the Ascension Plan, as well as the highest-level world apart from the Great Profound Realm thus far.
Naturally, he attached great importance to it.
When he had first entered the Beast God Realm, he had given each of the first two youngsters he encountered a legacy.
Xi Yun received "Yang" and "Sword."
And Xi Li received "Yin" and "Sword."
Later,