When they returned once more.
The first Heavenly Pride Gathering spanning the Immortal Borderland had come to a perfect close. Its influence was so immense that even after it ended, discussions of the battles fought during the gathering could still be heard throughout the immortal cities.
Yet the first-place Top Scorer had been entirely unexpected—even immortals could not have foreseen it.
She was a Sword Cultivator, and a rogue cultivator at that. It was said she had come from the southern foothills of the Myriad Mountains. She had risen to fame in a single battle, setting the world ablaze.
Gu Li Sheng personally invited this woman. Heavenly Wheel Immortal could no longer sit still, Yin Tianshou's desire to take a disciple had rekindled, and quite a few Immortal Ancestors wanted to take this Top Scorer into their fold.
Her name was Yun Qiyi. Born amidst the clouds and fallen upon the earth, she had tempered her sword since childhood, as though she possessed an innate sword body. Later, she cultivated after seizing an opportunity exposed by the Heavenly Wheel Sect, becoming an object of Bai Xinghan's focused attention.
Because the journey was long, she had slain many immortal-realm demon beasts along the way just to scrape together travel expenses. This later became a shadow over her Dao Heart, and only then did she come to understand the concept of possessions: the various immortal objects and buildings in the Immortal Borderland were not wild-grown after all...
Second place: Jiu Jian of the Primordial Chaos Immortal Domain.
This person was equally heaven-defying. After his defeat at the Six Domains Banquet that year, he had actually cultivated the Jiu Jian Heavenly Eye, perceiving the ten thousand Daos and crushing outstanding talents from every side. Even Yun Qiyi regarded him as someone to fear.