At the very moment Artoria drew the sword and raised it high, on Mount Tai in the distant East.
Jiang Yang had just stepped out of the flames with Li Xiaowa and the other two!
Before he could head toward the Refuge, he suddenly sensed something in his mind.
This was the first time anything like this had happened since he attained the Fifth Step.
Curious, he cast his gaze toward it, as though he stood high in the heavens, looking down upon the teeming masses.
His gaze crossed countless miles and fell upon a short yet strikingly valiant girl, holding a stone sword high.
The longer he looked at that stone sword, the more familiar it seemed. At last, he remembered: wasn't that the Stone Sword he had left in the mortal world on his first journey west during the Golden Age?
To think it would appear now!
Then he saw a spirited, burgeoning kingly aura rising from the girl, and immediately found her very pleasing to the eye.
On a whim, he pointed a finger, and a ray of golden light crossed a thousand mountains and ten thousand rivers, traveling from the continent's eastern reaches to the Far West and descending upon the kingly girl.
Beside him, Li Xiaowa watched his movement and asked curiously.
"What is it, Jiang Yang?"
"Nothing. I just came across an interesting youngster, hahaha."
Jiang Yang laughed heartily, looking west.
"So mysterious."
Li Xiaowa rolled her eyes and took the lead, flying west.
On the stone platform.
Before the crowd could cheer, while the shills Merlin had arranged were still working themselves up, they saw a ray of golden light fall from the horizon onto the valiant girl on the stone platform!
Immediately afterward, a great sun seemed to rise behind the girl,