[I am the Ruthless Dao Lord!]

Beyond repaying a kindness, the alliance between the Ji Family, the Azure Emperor, and Tianxuan filled the master of Star Peak with ever greater dread. If a saint wielding an Emperor Weapon struck, who in the Eastern Wasteland could stand against him?

The master of Star Peak could already foresee the dawn of a magnificent age.

He could not befriend the saints, so he could only turn his attention to Lin Xian, a future leader of this organization.

Demonstrating the great Dao of the stars for him would establish a bond of goodwill. Perhaps, a thousand or ten thousand years later, it would bear fruit for Star Peak.

Though inferior to the head of Taixuan, the master of Star Peak was still an Immortal Platform Realm cultivator. His exposition of the Dao offered Lin Xian a fresh perspective, with mysteries all its own.

With Tianxuan's cultivation method as his foundation, Lin Xian drew connections and listened in rapt fascination. In the night sky, the seven stars of the Big Dipper—Tianquan, Yuheng, Kaiyang, Yaoguang, Tianji, Tianxuan, and Tianshu—blazed brightly, showering down boundless starlight.

This was Star Peak's Innate Star Deity Art. Lin Xian blended it into his manifestation, Stars Illuminate the Azure Heavens. The brighter the starlight grew, the vaster the azure heavens became!

After he had cultivated like this for a long time, the Crazy Old Man suddenly sent a message through his divine sense, summoning Lin Xian, Ye Fan, Hua Yunfei, and the others to a secluded location for an urgent matter.

"With two saints there, what could they possibly be unable to resolve?"

Lin Xian was secretly alarmed. Was the Ruthless Lineage's ultimate guardian really so difficult to deal with?

He rode a divine rainbow and joined the others in a quiet chamber.

Inside, the Void Mirror hovered,