Wind Rises in the Depths of Chaos

The Chaos Void Cavern had remained unchanged since antiquity.

Amid the vast, churning rings of the qi sea, the deep Chaos Void Cavern revealed not the slightest glimmer of light. Even the celestial radiance that shot forth from the Mountain Sea Realm scattered into dust within the Chaos Void Cavern.

A sea of the Mountain Sea Realm's origin spiritual energy poured down through the flaws in the Heaven and Earth Embryonic Membrane, like a suspended waterfall of the Tianhe flowing backward into the mortal world, delivering endless spiritual energy and primordial qi into the Chaos Void Cavern.

The dazzling, multicolored spiritual energy lost its color the instant it left the Mountain Sea Realm, becoming mottled and variegated. It was then drawn into the vast, surging qi sea, endlessly circling, enshrouding, scattering, and drifting around the Chaos Void Cavern like stellar rings, spreading ever outward.

Without a sound, ripples arose. Then hazy currents swayed and gradually settled.

For a time, all things seemed to fall into stagnation, as though an invisible supreme force had congealed everything.

Jiang Sheng and the Black Shadow were among all things. In an instant, an indescribable chill froze them completely—from flesh to mana, from Dao Fruit to true spirit. They became sculptures, stripped of all power to resist, then fell continuously toward the Chaos Void Cavern amid the vast, turbulent rings of the qi sea, carried along by the surging spiritual tide.

No one knew how much time lay between the flaw in the Mountain Sea Realm's Heaven and Earth Embryonic Membrane and the deep Endless Void of the Chaos Void Cavern. Perhaps it was but an instant; perhaps it was an aeon.

Time itself was distorted here. The River of Time seemed infinitely stretched, then infinitely compressed, severing every instant and turning each into an