The Desolate Realm Sacred Mountain served as the link connecting this world to the World-Passing Ancient Road.
Restricting flight by streaks of light was naturally not all it did.
After all, the World-Passing Ancient Road was a path to immortality on which countless prodigies from across the heavens wagered their Karma.
The key lay in how to give the Karma of these prodigies a somewhat tangible definition.
If the many Desolate Realms were the first sieves for selecting the prodigies of the heavens, then the sacred mountains standing at their centers were crucial mediums for defining those prodigies' Karma as they climbed.
The Desolate Realm Sacred Mountain was a projection of a divine mountain cast down from the upper realm in ancient times.
The mountain itself was a precious karmic treasure used by a superpower in the ancient upper realm to anchor its sect's fortunes.
Even now, after splitting into countless projections, its control over Karma remained beyond anything these ordinary greater worlds beneath the World Sea could imagine.
And as those responsible for screening the prodigies of the heavens, these royal clans of the Desolate Realm could also draw on the Desolate Realm Sacred Mountain's power to roughly perceive how densely the climbers' Karma had gathered.
"Hmm?!"
"Karma like a rainbow, its manifestation like a flood dragon!"
"To think there would be someone like this among the prodigies climbing the mountain this time."
Within the crowd, the woman of withering and flourishing, who had been watching the mountain path beneath her feet, looked slightly startled. A brilliant light flashed in her eyes.
The clouds beneath her feet churned and dispersed, directly revealing the images of two figures, one tall and one short, halfway up the mountain.
They were none other than Ao Zhen and Ao Ya, the two siblings