"Sage Xiang's direct disciple?! Could he be Sword Lord Bai Yi, who recently slew a Soul Fusion Realm Desolate Clan cultivator while still at the Nascent Soul stage?"
"Hmph! As if we needed you to remind us! Only someone with True Lord Bai's extraordinary gifts could become the Sage's sole direct disciple!"
"A Nascent Soul slaying a Spirit Transformation cultivator-unprecedented! Sword Lord Bai Yi already has something of a Sage about him!"
"Sword Lord Bai Yi's reputation needs no endorsement from us."
"What interests this old man is precisely what sort of art the Sage meant by 'an art to impart to all beneath heaven.'"
As Xiang Kuang's voice faded, the hundreds of millions of cultivators beneath the heavens surrounding Golden Crow Hall, who had just awakened from their epiphanies, could not help breaking into discussion.
Even the leaders of the major powers on the six sides of the platform waited patiently, a hint of curiosity in their eyes.
However, they were showing respect not only to Bai Yi, the prodigy who had risen to fame over the past century, but also to Xiang Kuang, the newly ascended Sage.
After all, as Xiang Kuang's sole direct disciple and someone with considerable talent himself, Bai Yi might well enter the realm of Sages in the future.
All they had to do now was wait a little longer, so they were naturally willing to forge a favorable connection.
As for Sage Xiang's words about "an art to impart to all beneath heaven," they merely chuckled inwardly.
Bai Yi's talent was indeed unparalleled, but a Nascent Soul cultivator imparting an art to veteran Spirit Transformation cultivators like them... was simply rather amusing.
Inside Golden Crow Hall...
Returning with long strides, Xiang Kuang grinned at Bai Yi, who sat cross-legged beneath the tree.