Xiao Qing remained silent for a long time.
The river wind lifted the hem of his robe and tousled the hair at his temples.
"I came from a very distant place."
He finally spoke, his voice soft.
"I am heading to an even more distant place. As for my origins..."
He raised his head and looked toward the vast expanse of void beyond the perception of Heavenly Sovereigns.
"Telling you now would do you no good. When the day comes that you can see farther than a Heavenly Sovereign, you will naturally understand."
Luo Qingxian followed his gaze toward the heavens.
She saw nothing.
A Spirit Grade Heavenly Sovereign's senses could cover an entire continent, yet where his gaze fell, there was only empty void.
No.
It was not empty.
In the deepest, farthest reaches of that void, she vaguely sensed a faint, almost imperceptible fluctuation.
That fluctuation transcended spiritual energy, transcended laws, and even transcended the very concept of "existence" as she understood it.
Chaos.
Vast and boundless.
Like a divine mountain standing above eternity.
Luo Qingxian withdrew her gaze and clenched her fists tightly.
"What lies above a Heavenly Sovereign?"
Xiao Qing said, "Immortal Grade."
"..."
"And above Saint Grade?"
Xiao Qing lowered his head to look at her, but did not answer.
Luo Qingxian did not need an answer either.
She had read it from his silence.
There was another realm above Saint Grade, and this man stood within that realm, looking down upon her, upon the entire Great Thousand World, and upon this river of time that had flowed for countless ages.
She suddenly smiled.
Three parts of that smile were bitter, but seven parts were stubborn.
"Senior, just wait. One day, I will stand before you and see your true face clearly with my own