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Gu Jingzhao had not felt that anything was different from before, but Xu Yuan had completely panicked the moment he passed the trial and officially entered the Profound Heaven Sect—

The instant Gu Jingzhao stepped into the Profound Heaven Sect, Xu Yuan was nearly crushed into dissipation by several suddenly arriving auras. Those auras were overwhelmingly powerful, like invisible mountains pressing viciously upon his soul body, making it difficult for him even to maintain his phantom form.

What frightened him even more was that three gazes had instantly locked onto him—not Gu Jingzhao, but precisely his soul body!

Though those stares lasted only a brief instant, Xu Yuan went cold all over, his soul body trembling uncontrollably—he was certain it was no illusion. His existence had been discovered.

Xu Yuan came from two thousand years ago. Before his death, he had been a Soul Emergence Realm cultivator. He had talent and had worked hard enough, but in their era, that cultivation level had already stood at the pinnacle.

The great war ten thousand years ago had nearly exhausted the world's spiritual energy at its source. More than eight thousand years after the war, even with the world's self-recovery, the remaining spiritual energy was pitifully thin. Cultivators breaking through realms were like sailing against the current; they often remained stuck at a single realm for centuries without advancing an inch, left only to wait helplessly until their lifespan ran dry.

In such an era, the Soul Emergence Realm cultivators whose names could be called across the entire Nine Domains could not even fill two hands. Every one of them was a priceless treasure fought over by the various regions, their status incomparably exalted.

Two thousand years had passed, spiritual energy had revived more quickly, and cultivators' realms had risen along with