High in the sky,
Shen Changchuan sped onward, the drifting clouds below sweeping swiftly beneath his feet.
Shen Changchuan gazed toward the distant horizon, the vast and boundless world reflected in his eyes,
while a trace of worry involuntarily flickered between his brows.
"Great-Grandmaster, do you think Master's plan can succeed?"
"Isn't it too hasty and rash to challenge the Mystic Core Realm so abruptly?"
Shen Changchuan looked at the empty void before him,
then suddenly spoke.
There was not a single figure at his side.
Anyone standing here would only see Shen Changchuan alone in the lofty heavens.
But Shen Changchuan knew
that it was not that no one stood beside him, but that he lacked the qualifications to perceive the existence of that higher level of power!
Great-Grandmaster True Person Qianyuan had been there all along.
In truth, if not for the concern that using Mystic Core Realm power would leave behind the aura and traces of the Mystic Core Realm, possibly allowing others to discover them,
True Person Qianyuan would have long since torn through the void and taken him directly to the rumored trial ground,
rather than having Shen Changchuan fly there himself as he did now.
Shen Changchuan's talent needed to remain hidden.
True Person Qianyuan, who had now decided to conceal himself in the shadows as a Dao Protector,
needed to remain hidden even more!
If traces of him as a Mystic Core Realm cultivator were exposed, it would instead make it easier for Shen Changchuan to fall under the gaze of others!
"You need not worry about this."
"Your master did not make that choice entirely because of you."
A sigh sounded beside his ear.
Then Shen Changchuan saw the faint, barely discernible phantom of True Person Qianyuan beside him.
The phantom's light