Ao Qing gazed at the figure slowly rising from the seabed, her eyes trembling.
Pure Yang True Person, who had lived a thousand years ago, had truly appeared here!
Of the Four Seas, the East Sea was the wealthiest and the mightiest.
Yet this man was the very one who had given even her elder brother Ao Guang endless headaches.
When news of Pure Yang True Person's "death" had arrived, the East Sea had held banquets in celebration for months on end.
The Dragon Clan of the Four Seas was not alone. The sect masters of the Outer Dao wore the same astonished expressions.
A man dead for a thousand years had suddenly appeared before them, alive and breathing.
And none were more exhilarated than the disciples of the Taihua Sect.
For a thousand years, they had worshipped this very Pure Yang Patriarch day after day.
He was the patriarch who had raised the Taihua Sect to heights it had never reached before.
Now, the figure in the portrait had stepped out of it.
Even the Supreme Grandmasters battling in the void turned their eyes toward him.
The struggle between the Devil Lord of All Living and Jiang Chu faltered for an instant. Both looked down, astonishment and doubt in their eyes.
Starlight swirled around the Heavenly One. Even as he fought Kunpeng, he slowly raised his gaze toward the figure wreathed in Pure Yang radiance.
After a moment, he said flatly:
"Even within the Outer Dao... there are matters I know nothing of."
The shock had yet to fade from the Beast Emperor's face. He said gravely:
"The Taihua Sect truly kept its depths hidden."
"But has this Pure Yang True Person been alive all along, or did he only awaken in recent years?"
Shi Jinghong's eyes flickered. "This