Seeing the Present, Understanding the Ancient

Li Shun sat motionless, as patient as a hunter waiting for his prey.

Only after a long struggle that lasted the entire night did he finally draw that exceedingly faint remnant of Divine Power into his body.

The instant it entered him, Li Shun distinctly felt its strange, unmistakable presence.

"Just as I thought! It's exactly like the presence I sensed atop Mount Buzhou in the Primordial Illusion Realm!"

"But... what use is this Divine Power after all the trouble I took to draw it into my body?"

Li Shun examined it closely, and his brow creased.

That thread of golden Divine Power was utterly at odds with the vast, righteous Liqi he had cultivated through the Spring-Autumn Brush's lineage. It neither joined Liqi's circulation through his body nor answered his will when he tried to wield it in battle.

And there was so little of it. Despite its lofty name, "Divine Power," it was probably less destructive in practice than Li Shun's own Liqi.

Li Shun put the question to Ancient Web.

"Divine Power was a form of energy used by the gods of the Primordial Continent."

"By its very nature, it stands above the Primordial Qi born of Great Qian's Heaven and Earth."

"The thread you've captured may be faint, but it has many uses. For instance..."

"Returning from Present to Ancient. Going back to the Primordial Continent!"

Ancient Web's cold voice rang through Li Shun's sea of consciousness.

"What?" Li Shun was shaken. "Are you certain? With just this one thread of Divine Power?"

Li Shun understood what Ancient Web meant by returning from present to ancient and going back to the Primordial Continent.

That was precisely why he had his doubts.

At Great Qian's Hundred Schools Gathering, the prodigies of many schools had joined forces. Even