Jade Pool's Mysterious Holy Maiden, the Young Master of the Baili Imperial Clan

Azure Radiance Dao Domain.

Jade Pool Holy Land.

Atop a towering divine mountain wreathed in ethereal immortal mist.

Dao resonance abounded, endless immortal radiance flowed, and vast divine light cascaded down.

High above.

Divine birds and auspicious beasts of all kinds, their presences incomparably powerful, circled and soared.

From time to time, strains of immortal music drifted through the void, bringing peace and tranquility to the mind.

It was wondrous beyond measure, transcendent and otherworldly.

What a sacred land of immortals!

At the center of the divine mountain.

Many figures had already gathered in the boundless Jade Pool Square.

Most were finely dressed boys and girls in their early teens.

They brimmed with youthful vigor, possessed extraordinary talent, and were so excited their blood boiled!

Especially some of the youths whose expressions were indifferent and whose bearing was transcendent.

Every one of them wore an air of supreme confidence, as though they alone reigned supreme and looked down upon the world.

Moreover, divine rainbows streaked across the sky from time to time.

Quite a few cultivators were still arriving, flying up from the foot of the mountain in groups of two or three.

The entire Jade Pool Holy Land was bustling with noise and excitement.

On the main peak.

Inside a magnificent yet utterly desolate palace.

A girl of fifteen or sixteen stood by a window.

Her beautiful eyes shone like stars as she gazed absently at the churning sea of clouds.

Her face was ethereal and exquisitely beautiful, her figure tall and slender, her skin like congealed cream, and her flowing black hair fell to her waist.

She wore a long, pale-cyan dress, bright as fresh snow and aloof as an immortal.

The holy maiden of the Jade Pool Holy Land, Xu Lingxi!

After a long while, a trace of a bitter smile appeared on Xu Lingxi's lips.

Time passed so quickly.

In the blink of an eye.

Three months had already passed since she was reborn in the Xuanhuan Great World, before she had become an immortal.

But the scene of her blood spilling across the heavens when several immortal venerables besieged her in the Immortal Realm.

Was as vivid as if it had happened yesterday.

Fortunately, heaven had given her a chance to start over!

This time.

She would make those immortal venerables die without a burial place!

Befriending Gu Xuanjin was the first step Xu Lingxi would take to change the future.

In her previous life, she and Gu Xuanjin had actually had little contact.

That young sword immortal had been too dazzling!

No one could keep up with him.

As soon as he emerged, he swept aside the peerless monstrous geniuses of the three thousand Dao domains: young supreme beings, youthful great emperors, inheritors of ancient emperors, and more.

No one could stand against him.

With one sword, he suppressed an entire era!

He was a peerless monstrous genius the likes of whom had never appeared before and would never appear again.

In her previous life.

Gu Xuanjin had ventured into the depths of the starry sky in his twenties and swept all before him through the Immortal Ancient Battlefield.

He had fought his way into the Immortal Realm with overwhelming force.

Shaking the entire Xuanhuan Great World.

The name of the sword immortal Gu Xuanjin had resounded throughout the heavens.

Though she too was a peerless heavenly pride of astonishing talent.

She could not compare to Gu Xuanjin at all.

After Gu Xuanjin became an immortal.

She had exhausted every method to live several more lives against the flow of time.

Only then had she barely managed to break through her shackles and attain immortality.

And when she ascended to the Immortal Realm.

She wanted to ask after him.

The peerless monstrous genius who had come from the same place as her, and how he had been faring.

Only then did she learn.

That the sword immortal who had been invincible throughout the Xuanhuan Great World.

Still had no equal after arriving in the Immortal Realm!

He had swept through the great Dao lineages, ascended to the absolute pinnacle, and attained the Dao fruit of an immortal emperor!

And after surpassing the realm of an immortal emperor.

He had disregarded karma, broken through the barriers of the ages, and crossed the long river of time.

He had gone back to the mythic age of countless years past, when immortals and gods filled the heavens!

Xu Lingxi sighed softly.

"Being born in the same era as you was both a blessing and a tragedy."

The blessing.

Was that she could witness and experience the deeds of a legendary monstrous genius firsthand. It was an honor.

But the tragedy was.

No matter how astonishing one's talent or how peerless one's brilliance.

With Gu Xuanjin there, all could only pale beneath his dazzling light.

Even in this golden age, when stars shone and heroes gathered.

No one could eclipse his brilliance!

So.

Faced with a Gu Xuanjin so terrifying.

Even after living her life again, Xu Lingxi had not the slightest thought of vying with him.

Just then.

A languid voice tinged with amusement suddenly rang out in the hall.

Drawing Xu Lingxi out of her thoughts.

"Say, Lady Holy Maiden.

Did that divine son of the Gu family tell you when he would come to this gathering of heavenly prides?

Those old fellows in my family.

Always say that this divine son of the Gu family is a peerless monstrous genius destined to suppress an entire era!

So I came to have a look.

To see just how different he is from us.

Whether he has three heads and six arms.

Or stands as tall as a mountain peak, with a body like a mountain."

The newcomer was a boy of around fifteen.

He was exceptionally handsome.

He had delicate features, sword-shaped brows and thin lips, and stood tall and elegant, with a casual, languid expression and a free and unrestrained air.

The imperial son of the Baili Imperial Clan, Baili Chang'an!

Xu Lingxi smiled faintly.

"I didn't expect Imperial Son Chang'an to arrive so soon.

But.

Entering a woman's room without permission is rather presumptuous."

"I couldn't help it.

I looked for you outside for ages and couldn't find you, so I had to come into the hall and see.

Please forgive me for the intrusion, Lady Holy Maiden."

Baili Chang'an smiled apologetically.

"Just be more careful next time, Imperial Son Chang'an.

As for when that divine son of the Gu family will arrive, he didn't tell me."

Xu Lingxi looked calmly at the youth.

The Baili Imperial Clan was one of the hegemonic powers of the Beiyou Dao Domain.

This Imperial Son Chang'an possessed the legendary Taihao Chaos Divine Physique and commanded the Law of Chaos.

His cultivation had also broken through to the third level of the Divine Bridge Realm.

Though he seemed rather detached and casual.

He was, apart from Gu Xuanjin.

Among those with the most terrifying talent in the current era.

Unfortunately, Imperial Son Chang'an had ultimately died on the Immortal Ancient Battlefield.

She just didn't know whether he had died at Gu Xuanjin's hands or someone else's.

Baili Chang'an yawned and chuckled.

"For this gathering of heavenly prides in your Azure Radiance Dao Domain.

You invited the divine son of the Gu family.

That has drawn out the inheritors of quite a few other major powers ahead of time.

It looks like once this gathering is over.

The Wind and Cloud Ranking the Heavenly Mystery Pavilion drew up just last month will undergo a complete reshuffle.

A genius like me, who's currently ranked third.

Will probably be pushed out of the top ten!"

Xu Lingxi smiled faintly.

"If even you are going to be pushed out of the top ten, Imperial Son Chang'an.

Then wouldn't I, the Jade Pool Holy Maiden ranked ninth.

Be pushed out of the top twenty?"

The Wind and Cloud Ranking.

Was compiled by the Heavenly Mystery Pavilion, a mysterious power with branch pavilions throughout the world's three thousand Dao domains.

It included the ninety-nine most outstanding genius prodigies of the three thousand Dao domains.

And ranked them.

To make the list, one not only had to reach the Foundation Establishment Realm by the age of twelve.

One also needed a sufficiently impressive record of achievements to win others' recognition.

It was a ranking of considerable weight!

But this time, because of Gu Xuanjin.

Heavenly prides and monstrous geniuses who had not emerged before.

And had therefore not been included in the rankings, were appearing one after another.

A reshuffle of the rankings was certain.

But the people currently in the top ten were no ordinary figures either.

How many of them would be replaced remained unknown.

The two chatted idly.

Above the Jade Pool Holy Land.

The void shattered.

A colossal body, vast as a mountain range, swept out of it.

It covered the sky and blotted out the earth, leaving the sun and moon without light.

It was a divine beast, a true phoenix, whose oppressive might was powerful and heavy, its body radiating a strange divine light!

The true phoenix descended slowly.

Only then did everyone see the vast and magnificent divine palace on its back.

Baili Chang'an's gaze sharpened, and a flicker of interest appeared on his languid face.

"Primordial Holy Land?"

"I didn't expect the holy son of the Primordial Holy Land to arrive before the divine son of the Gu family."

"Then I'll go meet this holy son of the Primordial Holy Land first."