Ancient Realm, council hall.
Gu Yuan stood before the window with his hands behind his back, his gaze seeming to pierce through endless space and fall upon the distant lands of the Central Plains. Behind him, Elder Gu Dao stood silently, his expression equally complicated.
"You mean Han Feng... might break through to Dou Di?" Gu Yuan's voice was soft, yet it carried a faint tremor.
"The remnant soul of the Purifying Lotus Saint personally said that he has already found the path." Elder Gu Dao's tone was likewise filled with shock and emotion. "I think... most likely, yes."
The hall fell into a long silence.
After a long while, Gu Yuan let out a drawn-out sigh. Within that sigh were amazement and relief, but even more than that, an indescribable desolation and loneliness.
"Xiao Xuan... my dearest friend, who was never inferior to anyone in his life, exhausted the entire Xiao Clan's foundation and still could not find that path. Yet a junior has found it before him."
"The younger generation is truly formidable... truly formidable."
Similar scenes played out almost simultaneously within the Yan Clan, Thunder Clan, and Yao Clan.
Yao Clan.
As Clan Chief Yao Dan listened to the news Wan Huo Elder had brought back, the hand holding his teacup froze in midair for a long time.
He set down the cup, his face full of mixed emotions. "Yao Chen truly accepted two extraordinary disciples."
After a moment of silence, he solemnly instructed Wan Huo Elder, "Go. Send an invitation to the Yao Clan's Medicine Canon to Falling Star Pavilion, and formally invite Yao Chen to attend our clan's Medicine Canon."
Falling Star Pavilion.
Han Feng slowly stepped out of a spatial rift with Queen Medusa, only to discover an additional familiar figure in