Chapter 54: Bone-Piercing Cold
Outside the Ancient Battlefield.
Bai Qiulan, Sun Ruowei, and the others had already arrived.
All of them were under a hundred years old, just barely meeting the age limit to enter the Heaven’s Chosen Ancient Battlefield. They were right at the edge of that restriction.
For example, the Sect Master of the Grand Dao Sect had already passed the hundred-year mark and could no longer enter. One could only sigh—such was fate.
"You’re in the Unity Dao Realm and still entering the Heaven’s Chosen Ancient Battlefield? Isn’t that just bullying?" Sun Ruowei said with some exasperation.
Bai Qiulan, still dressed in her flowing white robes, stood where the breeze accentuated her impossibly curvaceous figure. Countless gazes couldn’t help but turn her way, again and again.
"It’s true I’ve reached Unity Dao," she replied lightly, "but the Everlasting Heaven’s Chosen Ranking isn’t based on strength alone. Bone quality, combat ability, age—many factors are considered. My ranking may very well be lower than yours."
She smiled faintly as she spoke.
"Don’t mock me," Sun Ruowei huffed. "I’m still a good eighty thousand miles away from Unity Dao. We’re practically the same age, remember?"
As the two chatted, a refined and elegant young man approached.
"Junior Sister Bai, long time no see."
The newcomer was Xu Mozhi, an elder from the Mountain-River Pagoda Sect, skilled in artifact crafting.