Guardian Peak, Mount Shu.0

High above the sea of clouds, the two-toned yin-yang sky continued its slow, steady rotation. From within that swirling dome, Baize finally emerged from seclusion, as though she had found the path she had been searching for.0

The moment she appeared, Venerable Wen Yuan arrived at the summit and asked, "How did it go?"0

Because of the divide between humans and demons, the Mount Shu Sect hadn’t openly cheered for Baize. Still, within the sect, they fully supported her efforts to prove her understanding of the Great Dao and ascend to the ninth realm.0

After all, on a personal level, they felt much closer to Baize than to some outsider from the human race. She had shared thousands of years of history with the Mount...0