"Master."
Shi Yi's two disciples arrived: Red Dragon Ge Gu and Little White the Qilin.
After all these years, both had become Immortal Kings. Red Dragon Ge Gu still had some way to go before surpassing his father, while Little White the Qilin had already surpassed the Ten Fiends Qilin of old.
Shi Yi nodded slightly. In truth, he had not been a particularly dutiful master. Apart from teaching them earnestly while they were in the human dao domain, he had mostly left his two disciples to struggle on their own. Still, the outcome was good; both had found their own paths.
This time, Shi Yi kept them with him and pointed out the way forward from an Immortal Emperor's perspective.
Without this, Ge Gu and Little White would probably have reached their limits at the Immortal King realm.
Of course, breaking beyond kingship to become emperors in this world was hardly realistic. Not a single being who had advanced to Quasi-Immortal Emperor here was ordinary. Their hopes lay in The Heavens.
That was a far grander world, where brilliant paths of evolution converged, colliding in dazzling showers of sparks. There was no shortage of Quasi-Immortal Emperors or Immortal Emperors there. Once Ge Gu and Little White reached The Heavens, they would have a chance to glimpse higher domains.
The same held true for Butcher, Burial Master, Chicken-Raiser, Fake Medicine Seller, Willow Deity, and the others. If they could not advance further during the hundred thousand years the Twin Stones remained in this world, Shi Yi would take them to The Heavens in hopes of further progress.
Aside from them, he would also take a great many Immortal Kings from the Boundary Sea.
The Twin Stones had eliminated this world's darkness. Once they left, those Immortal Kings from the Boundary