In the void, that figure in plain white stood still for a moment.
His name was Yun Hai, the current head of the Yun Clan of the First Layer, a top-tier figure throughout the entire First Layer.
The Yun Clan had stood for ten billion years, its foundations deep. Even the true great figures atop the sacred mountains of the Ninefold Firmament had to show it some respect.
And Yun Hai himself was famously overprotective of his daughter!
At this moment, his gaze pierced through layer upon layer of void and fell upon a certain place in the Ninth Layer. There, his daughter Yun Xuan stood beside a young man in white!
They were standing very close.
Close enough to make the corner of Yun Hai's eye twitch.
"Good. Very good."
He drew a deep breath and suppressed the surging emotions in his heart.
She had not gone home for a thousand years—so she had been abducted by someone!
He recalled the distant past. He, too, had once abducted the daughter of a great figure...
Ahem. He had wandered off-topic.
He wanted to see just what sort of person dared abduct Yun Hai's daughter!
His figure shifted as he prepared to descend directly.
But at that moment, he suddenly stopped.
Yun Hai raised a brow, temporarily suppressing the fury in his heart as he concealed himself.
Then, he saw them.
One billion people.
A full billion people stood solemnly before the Road to Heaven.
It was a true ocean. The sea of people stretched from the end of sight to an even farther horizon, a black mass without visible bounds.
Yet not one sound came from those billion people. Only the banners crackled fiercely in the wind.
Yun Hai's pupils contracted slightly.
"This Ninth Layer..."
His gaze swept over the