95: Chapter 93 A Peerless Prodigy Emerges

At the same time, within the Heavenly Road, countless overlapping Secret Realm spaces began to devour entrants randomly, even as if "choosing their masters."

Some Prodigies had just stepped onto the third step when they were swept into a vortex and disappeared into some unknown Legacy land;

Some were even swept away by a spiritual light before they could even land, sent directly to the deeper regions.

This was both an Opportunity and a separation; no one could ensure they would land in the same place as their companions.

However, because of this, those who could still steady themselves, suppress the Laws with their own strength, and even choose their path forward by will, truly revealed their depth.

At this moment, near the entrance of the Heavenly Road, the top Prodigies from various domains and forces finally appeared one by one, revealing their brilliance.

A figure stepped onto the Heavenly Road, wearing a plain white Daoist robe with cold features, surrounded by one hundred and eight miniature star orbit phantoms, each formed by pure Daoist Laws.

He was the ultimate Dao Seed jointly cultivated by the War Hall and Rites Hall of the Myriad Dao Alliance, who had reached a rare consensus—the Myriad Dao Alliance's Dao Child, Yu Hengzi; his cultivation was at the Half-step Immortal realm, and he suppressed his generation with the "Zhou Tian Star Art."

Rumor had it that when he was born, the stars changed, and he was regarded as the Myriad Dao Alliance's greatest trump card to continue its orthodox lineage and counter the changing situation.

His gaze toward the Heavenly Road was calm and rippleless, as if this trip was only to verify his own Dao.

At the same time, there was Gongshu Mo, the Young Workshop Master of the Divine Craft Workshop, dressed in black martial attire and carrying the "Thousand Mechanism Divine Casket" on his back, which could transform a thousand times; rumor had it that it was a work he completed independently at the age of fifteen.

He did not ride any flying boat but stood suspended in the Void Realm on a pair of Mechanical Wings, his expression indifferent.

In recent years, the Divine Craft Workshop has found it difficult to compete with the Myriad Dao Alliance and the Dragon Clan in terms of top-tier combat power, but Gongshu Mo has single-handedly pushed the Mechanical Puppet Technique to the realm of "Lifelike Beings."

Rumor has it that the silent humanoid Puppet beside him contains a complete Ancient Artisan Soul.

He came to the Heavenly Road to find the lost fragments of the "Ancestral Heavenly Craft Artifact."

A Golden Dragon true form transformed into a young man in a golden crown and brocade robe, with two horns on his forehead and a disdainful gaze; the Dragon might around him showed no intention of restraint, forcing many nearby Cultivators to turn pale and retreat.

He was the Dragon Clan Crown Prince, Ao Yu.

Although the Dragon Clan has repeatedly suffered setbacks at the hands of Chu Ye in recent years, its ten-thousand-year foundation remains, and Ao Yu is recognized as the number one combatant of this generation's Dragon Clan.

He tempered his Physical Body with the "Nine Ancestral Dragon Transformations," remaining undefeated even against Immortals.

His gaze toward the Heavenly Road carried undisguised aggression and Battle Intent.

The Saintess of the Heavenly Secret Pavilion, Xuan Ji, wore plain clothes and a light veil, revealing only a pair of clear eyes that seemed able to see through the vanities of the world.

She had no attendants and stood alone at the edge of the crowd; her aura was ordinary, yet no one dared to come within ten feet of her.

The Heavenly Secret Pavilion passes its Legacy to only one person each generation; the Saintess is the next Old Man of Tianji.

No one knew the depth of her cultivation, only that she could perform divination with copper coins since the age of three and glimpse the tributaries of the "River of Fate." She came to the Heavenly Road not for opportunities, but to "verify a prophecy."

The Azure Satchel Fairy of Medicine King Valley, Ye Zhi, wore green clothes and a jade hairpin, with seventy-two Magical Artifacts in the shape of medicinal hoes floating beside her, each of which had nurtured thousand-year Spirit Medicines.

She was the only anomaly in the Medicine King Valley in five hundred years to reach the Peak of the Immortal Dao through the "Medical Dao"; she was not good at direct combat, but the Medicinal Pills she refined were items even True Immortals would trade treasures for.

She came to the Heavenly Road to collect several species of extinct Spiritual Plants that only existed in ancient Secret Realms.

The Sword Seed of the Tianjian Sect, Dugu Jue, wore gray clothes, carried a sword, and had messy hair covering half his face. Though the sword was not unsheathed, invisible Sword Qi already sliced through the ten feet of space around him.

He was a once-in-a-millennium genius of the Tianjian Sect's "Sword Nurturing" lineage; since the age of ten, he had stopped fighting others, sealing all his killing intent, Sword Intent, and Battle Intent into that rusty iron sword in its scabbard.

No one knew what it would be like when this sword was unsheathed, including himself. He came to the Heavenly Road only to find an opponent "worthy of drawing his sword."

Yun Ni, the Saintess of the Myriad Spirits Heavenly Sect and a Personal Disciple of Madame Hua Yu, wore a light green dress and was surrounded by a faint spiritual light of vegetation, her aura gentle.

She inherited the Myriad Spirits Heavenly Sect's tradition of "Resonating with All Things," allowing her to briefly communicate with plants, birds, beasts, and even mountains and rivers to discover secrets.

Before Madame Hua Yu was subdued by Chu Ye, she became the Sect's new core focus of cultivation; although her cultivation had not reached the Immortal Realm, her auxiliary and investigative abilities were unsurpassed in her generation.

The gates of the Guanghan Immortal Palace were tightly closed, and its Disciples had sealed the mountain.

When the Heavenly Road opened this time, no one from the Guanghan Immortal Palace came. When the news spread, the Central Region was in an uproar with various rumors.

Only a very few people knew that the master and Disciple Palace Masters had already been arranged by Chu Ye to enter the depths of the hundred phoenix diagram before the Heavenly Road opened, as he had other plans.

The Shadow Pavilion had been destroyed, and its remnants had scattered.

Its vacancy in the power landscape of this Heavenly Road opening had completely become history.

Qin Zheng of the Great Qin Empire was the Empress's full brother; though not yet two hundred years old, he had already reached the Peak Emperor Realm.

He did not follow his sister in joining Chu Ye's system but instead stayed in the Great Qin to stabilize the rear.

When the Heavenly Road opened, he came alone as the representative of the Great Qin, wearing black armor and holding an old sword his sister had used in the past.

When someone asked him why he didn't travel with Chu Ye, he only replied: "How can a man of Great Qin always remain behind others?"

But when he looked toward the Heavenly Road, the complexity in his eyes was more than just Battle Intent.

Ayimu, the Saintess of the Witch God Temple and a direct Disciple of Witch Queen Jiu You, wore purple gauze and stepped on snakes with her bare feet.

She inherited seventy percent of the Witch Queen's poison Dao attainments and had spent ten years tempering herself in the Myriad Gu Cave in the depths of the Western Region, refining three Life-Bound Gu Kings, each capable of poisoning those in the Immortal Realm to death.

Her appearance was thirty percent similar to Jiu You's, but her brow held a bit more of the sharpness and fervor of a fearless youth.

She came to the Heavenly Road to capture the rumored remnant soul of the "Ancient Poison Dragon."

The Little Roc King of the Demon Domain, Yun Yi, a pure-blooded descendant of the Golden-Winged Great Roc, transformed into a handsome youth with flying golden hair and phantom wings on his back.

He was recognized as the number one in speed among the Demon Domain's new generation; flapping his wings with full force could briefly tear through spatial barriers.

Impatient with dealing with the elders of various clans, he hung alone high in the sky, yawning listlessly, his occasional glances toward the Heavenly Road flashing with a warlike light.

Mara Yana, the Saint of the Buddhist Kingdom, was barefoot, wearing a multi-colored kasaya and holding a zen staff that had been broken in half.

He was a once-in-a-millennium "Precept-Breaking Monk" of the Buddhist Kingdom; he was well-versed in many Mahayana sutras as a child, yet he simply did not believe in the word "precepts."

His Dao was not in the blue lamps and ancient Buddhas, but in tempering the heart in the Mortal World. His cultivation was immeasurable because no one had seen him go all out. He came to the Heavenly Road on his master's orders to "settle a matter of Karma."

Prodigies gathered, each with their own hidden sharpness.

However, when a figure that was not ostentatious yet impossible to ignore stepped out of the Void Realm with a group of beauties, the bustling entrance suddenly fell silent for a moment.

Chu Ye had arrived.

Behind him, the Empress, Witch Empress Jiu You, Fox Immortal Su Qingyue, Madame Hua Yu, the master and Disciple Li Yue and Cold Moon, and even Abbess Miaoyin, each possessed peerless grace; their auras were restrained yet unfathomable, like stars surrounding the moon.

Countless gazes—whether of wariness, scrutiny, hostility, or complexity—all focused here.

The Gate of the Heavenly Road finally officially opened to all participants at this moment.