Between heaven and earth,
Wild laughter echoed, carried by a voice-transmission spell painstakingly developed and prepared centuries ago. The voice reverberated across the globe again and again, reaching the ears of every Immortal Sect citizen.
"Hahaha..."
"Good morning, good noon, and good afternoon, everyone!"
"I am True Lord Sun Slayer... no, Sun Slayer Heavenly Lord!"
The voice had been brimming with awe-inspiring majesty, but a moment later, it turned downright roguish.
"Come get to know me, everyone. I'm ridiculously badass!"
"I'm even in the history books! If you really can't remember me, look me up online, then hurry up and shower me with envious, jealous looks."
"I'm not bragging, but back in the day, even the Great Sun Sword Lord, when he saw me..."
He began getting carried away, recounting his past valor and how the Spirit Transformation cultivators of the Great Sun Sword Pavilion had trembled before him. At the mere mention of Sun Slayer's name, they had immediately retreated thirty thousand miles, cowering within their formations without daring to take a single step outside, leaving the Immortal Sect Fleet free to gallop across the sea of stars.
He went on to say that the last Great Sun Sword Lord had hated him deeply back then but could do nothing, only sighing, "Since heaven gave birth to Sun Slayer, why did it also give birth to Great Sun?" and so forth...
True Lord Dinghai and the others blushed a little as they listened.
"Hurry up!"
Slaughter Spirit True Lord paid no heed to any of that. He tore open space and flew into the distance. "The first Nascent Soul True Lord Senior Sun Slayer sees after emerging from seclusion must be me. No one's stealing that spot!"
"Oh!"
Everyone woke as if from a dream. One yellow-haired Nascent Soul