Compared with ordinary living beings, or even Tongtian and the others,
Nuwa and Houtu undoubtedly perceived Jieyin most clearly at that moment.
Of these two female Sages, one had created the Humans and mended the heavens to save the world, bearing immeasurable merit.
The other had transformed herself into reincarnation and ruled the Netherworld as the Lord of the Earth Dao.
Though both were Sages, their foundations in their respective Dao lineages and their future potential had long since placed a subtle distance between them and the likes of the Three Pure Ones.
Apart from Dao Ancestor Hongjun, they were the ones who truly stood at the summit of this world, looking down upon the ages.
Yet today, that order had been shattered.
Within Wa Huang Palace, all was spacious and still.
Nuwa withdrew her gaze from beyond the Nine Heavens. Her slender fingers unconsciously brushed across the jade table before her, leaving a shallow mark.
After a long while, a soft snort escaped her lips, carrying a measure of cold disdain and self-mockery.
"Hmph. Who would have thought that perpetually gloomy fellow from the Western World would have such fortune and opportunity?"
Her words echoed through the empty palace, unanswered.
Nuwa understood perfectly well that Jieyin's transformation was utterly different from an ordinary breakthrough in cultivation.
This was not a step from early Sage to middle Sage. He had forcibly opened an entirely new Great Dao reaching to the heavens alongside the path of the Sages.
An unsurpassed path capable of standing shoulder to shoulder with her Human Dao and Houtu's Earth Dao.
"From now on, I must regard him as a rival as well."
Nuwa murmured to herself, her voice soft yet heavy as ten thousand mountains.
This meant that, from this day onward, another player truly qualified