A few moments after Sīmìng Star Lord's Legacy Abode emerged, within the Tian Xuan Sect, foremost among the seven great sects of the Immortal Realm.
Sect Master Bai Zhinan, a Three Tribulation Yang Spirit True Person, was cultivating with utmost concentration beneath the patriarch's statue in the sect's grand hall.
Suddenly, he sensed an ethereal aura manifest out of nowhere, descending from the heavens and attaching itself to the patriarch's statue. He hurriedly turned around and bowed to it. "May I ask which patriarch has descended? Please allow this disciple to prepare the ritual."
"Prepare it at once." A dignified yet magnanimous voice rang out. With the ritual's aid and the connection of auras, the disturbance caused by his descent could be reduced to its absolute minimum, preventing that person from sensing him when he broke through the spatial barrier!
Bai Zhinan deployed his Spiritual Sense and issued commands without pause. Within two or three breaths, two True Persons, one Yin Spirit Venerable, and three High-grade Golden Core Grandmasters entered, each carrying ritual implements. Together with him, they formed a Big Dipper formation.
They paced the stellar steps and arranged the Dipper. Streams of starlight utterly devoid of Dharma Power lit up, then condensed into clouds.
The moment the stellar clouds took shape, a terrifying, mighty aura that made Bai Zhinan and the others' minds tremble and left their thoughts unable to turn drifted down and settled upon them.
"Which Heavenly Sovereign patriarch has descended? He is countless times stronger than the One Tribulation patriarch who descended a thousand years ago!" Bai Zhinan and the others were both shocked and bewildered. "Could some great event have occurred?!"
A few moments later, the stellar clouds emitted streaks of Xuanhuang light, then transformed into a middle-aged man whose stern dignity was matched