At the edge of the sky, that streak of sword light drew ever closer, descending straight before the crowd.
An inexplicable pressure made the surrounding prodigies frown instinctively.
The sword light dispersed.
Dressed in white, Bai Yi appeared before them. He was like a sharp sword returned to its sheath, seemingly tranquil, yet inspiring wariness in many of the Dao Ranking prodigies.
Feeling those gazes of divine sense, Bai Yi first glanced at the treasure pagoda before him, its stone doors wide open. His brow rose slightly, and a faint, almost imperceptible smile appeared on his lips.
"The treasure grounds have opened. Surely you aren't all waiting here for a lower-realm man like me?"
"You're too modest, Fellow Daoist Bai."
"Heaven and earth are in upheaval, and the Ancient-Suppressing Heaven Pool has suddenly appeared. No one knows what changes this might bring."
Standing on a lotus beside the vast pool, Hua Dao Student gazed at the pagoda before him.
Ever since this underwater world appeared, countless prodigies of the Hundred Sects of the Six Provinces had searched tirelessly throughout these four hundred thousand years, yet it was as though the Ancient-Suppressing Heaven Pool had never existed. Now, with the Sea Tide Grotto-Heaven about to open, the Ancient-Suppressing Heaven Pool, silent for four hundred thousand years, had appeared before them of its own accord.
Never mind prodigies of the Six Provinces like them-even ordinary cultivators and rogue cultivators could vaguely sense something amiss in this change.
That was also why these Dao Ranking prodigies had gathered here to wait for Bai Yi.
After all, with a prodigy like Bai Yi, the first in a million years to obtain the status of True Disciple, even if something changed here...
The privileges of his True Disciple status would afford far greater safety than