After speaking, Bai Yi transformed into sword light and headed straight for the summit, just like the prodigies advancing around the sacred mountain.
For these prodigies who stood at the very pinnacle of the Nascent Soul level throughout Langyu Qingming Heaven, the Desolate Realm Sacred Mountain before them possessed a towering grandeur that seemed to span two domains.
Yet in just a single day, several prodigies who had entered the sacred mountain early appeared at its summit, borne by their flight lights.
Their gazes met those of the Eight Royal Clans' inheritors from the Desolate Clan, who had been waiting for a long time.
"Oh~ so you must be the Ancient Road gatekeepers the Sage mentioned."
A young man with golden hair and golden eyes, his body steeped in the aura of gold and treasures, toyed with an exceptionally ancient-looking blue-gold copper coin as he studied the Eight Royal Clans before him with interest.
Jin Guangyao, a prodigy of this generation whom the Four Seas Commerce Association had kept hidden for a century, was the twelfth-generation great-grandson of its current Sage.
Born with the Heavenly Treasure Golden Origin Sacred Body, he could well be called a natural prodigy of the Wealth Dao.
After he began cultivating, the current Sage of the Four Seas Commerce Association had kept him close at all times. He began cultivating at four, reached Foundation Establishment at five, Core Formation at twelve, Core Formation at thirty-seven, and Nascent Soul Formation at eighty.
Now, at just over a hundred and fifty years old, he had reached Nascent Soul Perfection, and his foundation in the Wealth Dao was incomparably profound.
In his view, had the Four Seas Commerce Association not been protecting him against interception and assassination by other major powers,
he would long since have swept through