"Rest assured, Senior." Jiang Lin raised a hand and lightly pressed it to his brow.
As his fingertip brushed past, a dark crimson sword scar emerged, surrounded by firelight like smoldering firewood.
Firewood-like flames reflected in Daoist Xuanling's eyes, stirring his thoughts and filling his heart with all manner of realizations.
In a daze, he seemed to see a thread of Red Radiance cleaving the azure vault, as though it were about to cut heaven and earth in two.
When he came back to himself, every strange sight his senses had perceived vanished with it.
"I have the sword scar bestowed by Senior Sword Ancestor."
As he spoke, an ancient bronze mirror appeared in his palm.
"And the treasure mirror bestowed by Senior Hong Sovereign."
Jiang Lin looked at Daoist Xuanling.
"If those reclusive Profound Penetrations truly act wantonly and plunge the mortal world into chaos, then I'll behead one of them to kill the chicken and warn the monkeys."
The moment those words fell, the entire great hall seemed to turn much colder.
During the changing of immortals and gods, Jiang Lin had utterly stolen the limelight. Even those 'immortal path seeds' ordained by heaven and earth could not compare to a fraction of him.
Later, before the witness of all living beings across the cosmos, he had personally received a sword scar from the Sword Ancestor.
Even now, though many reclusive sects had entered the world, Taiping Dao still reigned supreme beneath heaven and earth.
It could be said that this great shift of immortals and gods was unlike any before it!
As the opportunity universally acknowledged by the many Profound Penetrations to have triggered all these changes, Jiang Lin himself, as well as Chengming Mountain from which he hailed, naturally drew the attention of many Profound Penetrations.