With a loud shout, a man dressed as a scholar slowly walked over from the distant horizon.
The scholar seemed to cover a day's distance with every step. Before one could blink, he had clearly still been far away.
Yet in the blink of an eye, the scholar had crossed layer upon layer of space and appeared before everyone.
"This is..." Someone looked at the scholar. It seemed he had not emerged for so long that many had already forgotten his name.
"Desperate Scholar," Old Man Jiu Dan chuckled and called out.
Upon hearing that title, many people finally recalled memories that had long been sealed away.
As an existence with two Great Emperors in one sect, the Taiyuan Heavenly Sect had, aside from its founder Great Emperor Taiyuan,
a second Great Emperor—Emperor Hengyu.
And the Desperate Scholar before them had been Emperor Hengyu's foremost general back then.
With one Desperate Brush in hand, where under heaven could there be no sorrow?
As the Desperate Scholar approached, a vast Great Dao spread beneath his feet. He held a writing brush in his hand, while his green robes snapped sharply in the wild wind.
The faces of those from the Heavenly Outer Extreme Palace grew increasingly grim.
The plan had clearly failed. As more and more forces from the Eastern Continent received the news, they certainly would not be able to contend against the entire continent.
"Who dares offend my Eastern Continent?" Another light shout rang out.
Before the person appeared, the voice had already arrived, and a formation enveloped the entire void.
That formation seemed to contain all things between heaven and earth.
All things revived, lotuses bloomed, mountain birds vanished in flight, and all traces of man disappeared.
An old man's figure emerged from among the lotuses.
The old