The old man was Ning Daozhen, the person Song Yan met in the Void back in the day. It was also this elder who gifted him the "Ascension Order," which allowed Song Yan to escape just before the Emperor's Heart World was about to completely collapse...
At this moment, his hair and beard were fluttering, his gaze was indifferent, and his cloth shoes stepped steadily upon the darkness of the starry sky. As he pointed with a finger, the starry sky instantly gave off a feeling of sudden solidification.
Ning Yunmiao had long known her grandfather's skills and spun around to retreat back to the Void Ship. Those thousands of white cranes stopped entangling with the Rusted Sword, instead returning to her and disappearing one by one into her Lifebound Realm.
The Rusted Sword lost its opponent but still relentlessly continued stabbing toward the Void Ship.
But they suddenly halted.
The endless Secret Realms, heaven, and earth all came to a stop.
