Void Collapse, Foes Converge; Kaiyuan, First Among Dao-Wielders

The Primordial Chaos Cosmos held boundless, immeasurable reaches.

There was no up or down, left or right, north, south, east, or west.

Yet heaven and earth had their ordained measure, and chaos had its beginning and end. In ages past, the chaotic Ancestral World stood amid the void and overlooked all directions. When it crumbled, it became thirty-six Great Thousand Worlds and countless Middle Thousand and Small Thousand Worlds.

The thirty-six Great Thousand Worlds and the many Middle Thousand and Small Thousand Worlds lay scattered across the chaos of the Central Region. They spread outward from the center like a cluster of stars, thickest at its heart and sparse at its edges. Beyond those edges stretched the vastness of chaos.

Even the Central Region of chaos, where the vast majority of worlds lay, was boundless. Mortals could not cross it, and even immortals would struggle.

Countless turbulent void currents, dead black regions, chaotic pits, and collapsed stretches of void riddled the entire Primordial Chaos Cosmos. All were scars left when the Ancestral World shattered a million years ago.

The danger these scars posed to the living beings of the All Heavens and Myriad Worlds went without saying. Even Void Refinement and Integration Realm cultivators risked death before vast turbulent void currents and dead black regions, let alone great Spirit Transformation cultivators who could barely cross the void.

The disordered chaotic pits and collapsed voids were rifts blasted into the Primordial Chaos Cosmos when the Ancestral World shattered a million years ago. Every one of them was fraught with danger, and many held unknown beings and all manner of ghosts and gods trapped there for a million years.

Even Mahayana Realm beings faced grave peril in such places.

Only those who had attained Pure Yang could break free of such a