463: Past grievances and old scores, wiped clean.

The entire Cloud Sea Platform was dead silent.

Everyone was shocked into silence by the final outcome, where both sides had suffered mutual losses.

After a long time, Wang Zhan struggled to stand up, wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, and looked at Mo Yu, who was also standing up with difficulty, and spoke hoarsely:

"Mo Yu, has your obsession been satisfied today?"

Hearing this, Mo Yu's body trembled slightly. He looked at Wang Zhan, yet seemed to see his past self through him.

"Forget it, forget it..."

"After this battle, past grudges are wiped clean."

Having said that, he spoke no more, turned around, and, dragging his heavily injured body, stumbled toward the direction of Xiao Ruobai and the others.

Wang Zhan watched his retreating figure, a trace of complexity flashing in his eyes, then sat cross-legged and began to circulate his technique to heal his injuries.

In this battle, there was no winner and no loser.

But certain knots in their hearts seemed to have been untied.

The destructive energy storm in the center of the battlefield slowly subsided, leaving behind a scene of devastation.

Deep pits were everywhere, cracks spread out, and the air was filled with a violent aura of intertwined heat and vastness, silently telling of the tragedy and brilliance of the battle just now.

At the edge of the Cloud Sea Platform, Lu Chenzhou, Si Chen, and Gu Yueting slowly dispersed the defensive light wall they had jointly set up.

They glanced at each other, and all saw the undisguisable shock in each other's eyes, as well as a trace of bitterness hidden deep within.

The three of them had grown up in the Dao Zang Academy since childhood and were cultivated with the academy's top resources, so they naturally had their own pride.

Even on this Heavenly Ladder, witnessing many outside Prodigies reach the top, although they felt pressure, they still firmly believed in the academy's deep heritage and that they were by no means inferior to others.

"We were looking at the sky from the bottom of a well..."

Lu Chenzhou murmured in a low voice, his tone full of bitterness.

Just the aftershocks of the collision between the two required the three of them to join forces to resist; what a terrifying combat power this was.

Si Chen clenched his fists, his knuckles turning white, and his heart was in turmoil.

Lu Chenzhou's gaze involuntarily, and with a trace of indescribable alarm, turned toward those few calm figures nearby—Xiao Ruobai, Fang Hanyu, and Ling Xi!

A thought that made their hearts turn even colder surged uncontrollably in their minds.

Someone as strong as Wang Zhan had been defeated by these three in succession!

And Mo Yu, who had displayed the terrifying Qilin True Body, was merely a mount by the side of the Battle Asura?

Then these three—to what terrifying extent must their true strength have reached?!

Thinking that they might have previously harbored a trace of a thought to compete with them, they now felt their faces burning.

An indescribable sense of powerlessness surged in their hearts.

They had underestimated the people of the world; the world outside the Dao Zang Academy was far broader and more terrifying than they had imagined.

So the true Golden Age had already become this brilliant!

Not just them; on the other side, Mo Xingyun and Fairy Han Yue from Tianxu Star City also had solemn expressions, no longer possessing their previous transcendence and confidence.

Climbing the Heavenly Ladder might be said to be a display of talent and potential.

But the battle just now was a real competition of combat power!

They needed to put forth all their strength just to resist the dissipating aftershocks; if they were to face the brunt of it, the consequences would be unimaginable!

"The Central Continent, the Xuanhuang Ancestral Land, indeed hides dragons and crouching tigers; it is immeasurable."

Fairy Han Yue's cold eyes were full of ripples as she whispered softly.

In the crowd, several Prodigies who had originally been rubbing their hands and staring with burning eyes at the Battle Asura, Sword White Robe, or Fang Hanyu were now completely silent.

They had originally wanted to take the opportunity to challenge them and gauge the weight of these top-climbers, but now they only felt how laughable their previous thoughts were.

At this moment, all desire for victory was extinguished by this reality, leaving only deep awe.

For a time, the entire Cloud Sea Platform, whether it was the local Prodigies of Daozang, the visitors from the starry sky, or the Ancient Freaks, all fell into a certain eerie silence.

The battle between Wang Zhan and Mo Yu was like two heavy hammers, ruthlessly shattering the pride in many people's hearts.

The subsequent sparring had become dull and tasteless, and everyone had no heart to fight any longer.

Lu Chenzhou suppressed the turmoil in his heart. As the host, he took a deep breath and said loudly:

"To witness the world-shaking battle between Junior Brother Wang and Junior Brother Mo today is truly a blessing for our generation!

The Concept of this battle is profound and cannot be digested in a short time.

Why don't we end today's banquet here? You can all go back and quietly comprehend it; there will be plenty of time in the future!"

Hearing this, everyone nodded one after another, and none had any objections.

This welcoming banquet thus came to a quiet close in an atmosphere of extreme shock and complex, indescribable feelings.

One after another, streaks of light left this Cloud Sea Platform, which had turned into ruins, in silence, each carrying their own different thoughts.

Above the Cloud Sea Platform, in the invisible Void Realm, several powerful Divine Thoughts were slowly withdrawn.

Deep within Dao Yuan Mountain, inside an ancient palace, Xuanji Immortal Master slowly opened his eyes, his face still carrying a trace of unbelievable amazement.

"The younger generation is to be feared, truly to be feared. Is this level of destructive power really just a contest of the Saint Realm?

I'm afraid some Elders who have just entered the Saint King Realm might even risk failing miserably if they don't respond carefully!"

Beside him, an old woman shrouded in a faint starlight sighed faintly: "The Heavenly Azure Sacred Body and the qilin imperial blood are both peerless Foundations that have risen Heaven-Defyingly in an impossible era.

The Prodigies of this generation are even more astonishing than in our deductions.

Xuanji, it seems that we old fellows are truly old.

This world, after all, belongs to the young people now."

Xuanji Immortal Master was silent for a moment, his gaze seemingly penetrating layers of the Void Realm to look toward the endless heavens, finally turning into a long sigh.

"The Golden Age has arrived, and the winds and clouds are about to rise..."

The next day, before the shocking aftershocks of the Cloud Sea Platform had completely subsided, the Dao Zang Academy opened the Yundao Pond for the various Prodigies who had reached the top of the Heavenly Ladder.

The Yundao Pond, located in the core of the Dao Yuan Mountain's interior, is one of the Foundations on which the academy's eternal heritage depends.

The pond water is not ordinary spiritual liquid but is formed by the liquefaction of the purest Dao Origin aura, shimmering with seven-colored light, with natural Dao patterns appearing and disappearing at the bottom of the pond.

Cultivating here allows one to directly glimpse the Dao Origin, wash the Divine Soul, and solidify the Dao Foundation.

And the Yundao Pond opened this time was far more rich in Dao Rhyme and its water more brilliant than in the past.

Above the water surface, the rosy light almost condensed into substance, and the sounds of the Dao were melodious, as if countless Law chains were floating in the pond.

This was precisely due to Xing Tianao's return, using the means of a supreme Great Emperor to trigger deeper levels of the earth's Dao source and fully enhance it.

All for the sake of laying the most solid Foundation for this batch of top seedlings at the beginning of this Golden Age, helping them grow faster.

All the Prodigies stepped into the pond, each finding an area with the strongest Dao Rhyme and settling down to Cultivate.

Xiao Ruobai and the others also entered this place; although the cultivation environment of Zizhu Peak was uniquely favored, it also felt good to change the cultivation environment occasionally.

After experiencing yesterday's battle, everyone had a surge of energy in their hearts, whether it was to consolidate their skyrocketing cultivation, to impact a higher Realm, or to temper their Dao Heart.

The pond was silent, with only the ripples of the Dao swaying, as everyone was immersed in a deep level of Dao comprehension.

Time was like water, quietly flowing by.

In the blink of an eye, two months had passed.

The rosy light of the Yundao Pond gradually subsided, and the auras of the people in the pond became increasingly calm and heavy, clearly having benefited immensely.

Although not everyone could necessarily Breakthrough their Realm, their Dao Foundation was undoubtedly polished to be more solid and reaching Perfection, clearing countless obstacles for their future paths.

At the same time, hundreds of millions of miles away, in the Azure Profound Sect, at Zizhu Peak.

A breeze blew past, and the ten thousand stalks of Purple Bamboo rustled, quiet and peaceful.

Gu Changge, dressed in white, sat leisurely in the forest. Suddenly, as if sensing something, he slowly raised his head.

His gaze calmly looked toward the direction of the Dao Zang Academy, as if penetrating endless space to see the figures of that group of young Prodigies floating in the Dao Rhyme.

A trace of an almost imperceptible curve appeared at the corner of his mouth, and he whispered to himself:

"They've made quite a bit of progress. It's not bad for these boys to communicate and spar with other geniuses more!"

Then, his gaze swept over a seemingly ordinary gray sparrow perched on a branch with its head drooping listlessly; it was precisely the Golden-Winged Roc, Xiao Hei, in its bored disguise.

He shook his head slightly, withdrew his gaze, and focused his attention on the deepest part of that Azure Cloud Secret Realm.

This chapter is a bit filler, a transitional chapter; next, a new story begins!