Layer upon layer of terrifying shadows arrived where the dark-green banyan tree was undergoing its tribulation. They watched in silence, taking in everything before them, their gazes unreadable.
The six Immortal Orders' Yu Hui Dao Children felt as though they had fallen into an icy cavern.
The hairs on Yuan's body stood on end, and a chill slowly crept up his spine.
Every prodigy of the realms had a presence of his own.
The Dao Children of the great worlds were already the Immortal Sect's foremost prodigies and strongest individuals. Among them were the Heavenly Secret Yu Hui Dao Child, the Azurewood Yu Hui Dao Child, and the Five Elements Yu Hui Dao Child. And because the resources they had received while growing up had fallen short, they were not even fully developed Dao Children.
Even so, they were already among the strongest beings in the Immortal Sect's territory.
But!
At this moment, among the ranks of shadows that had suddenly appeared, Dao Child-level beings like them were everywhere!
These great-world Dao Child-level beings were so ordinary that they served merely as officers. They were unremarkable, unable even to raise banners of their own. At a glance, they looked no different from common soldiers.
A tangle of emotions rose in Yuan's heart.
He was proud. There was no denying it.
He had inherited the work of Yuan, Cong, Wu, and the others and developed the Immortal Sect into a great-world-level power. He now possessed potential approaching that of a seven-step Dao Child, with a good chance of becoming a Supreme in the future. He had made many achievements throughout history and contributed greatly to the Immortal Sect. How could he not be proud?
Yet here, Dao Child-level beings like him—experts beneath the Supreme level—were everywhere. They were nothing more than