Only a few days after Qing Yi sent the token to West Kunlun, a reply arrived.
Clear radiance streamed down from the sea of stars as Kong Xuan rose into the air and left Spirit Valley, heading toward the starlight filling the sky.
Moments later, she led a graceful immortal figure into Spirit Valley. It was the Queen Mother of the West.
"Senior, Master and his wife are waiting for you in the valley."
The Queen Mother of the West nodded slightly, her expression gentle.
She had long heard of Kong Xuan, Qing Xuan's sole direct disciple, whose extraordinary talent and reputation were known far and wide.
Two figures in the valley rose at the sound. Qing Xuan and Qing Yi approached at an unhurried pace, their bearing serene.
The congratulations the Queen Mother of the West had already prepared faltered briefly on her lips.
She had heard for herself the heavenly sounds of their attainment of Primordial Unity resounding throughout the Primordial World, and already knew that both had attained the supreme Dao Fruit.
Yet only now, meeting them at such close quarters, did she truly sense the gulf between them.
Perfectly natural vitality of creation wreathed Qing Yi, nourishing all things without a sound, yet holding the endlessly renewing source of the Great Dao.
The Dao resonance around Qing Xuan lay still and unruffled. He seemed ordinary, but was truly unfathomable, the Great Dao of Primordial Unity concealed without a trace.
For a moment, she seemed to see the two old friends with whom she had brewed tea and discussed the Dao beside the jade pool countless years ago. Only now, those friends had already ascended to the summit of all the heavens.
"Your voices shook the Primordial World when you attained the Dao. Seeing you in person