The golden Immortal Emperor's decree hung at the pinnacle of the heavens like a brilliant moon surrounded by stars, yet also like a vast sun illuminating the world and bringing salvation to all!
The awe-inspiring voice that rang from the decree left countless cultivators across the Upper Three Dao Domains deafened and rooted to the spot.
Silence! At that moment, the world fell utterly silent! Even the air seemed to freeze!
Many cultivators could clearly hear their own hearts pounding.
Only after the Immortal Emperor's decree and the visions filling the sky had faded from the heavens...
A long, long time passed... Then cries of astonishment echoed between heaven and earth, shattering the stillness in an instant!
Once their shock had passed, the cultivators erupted into a frenzy! What the Immortal Emperor's decree had proclaimed was simply too earth-shattering!
"D-did I hear that right? The Nirvana Emperor Venerable himself is going to take the field against the Azure Cloud Immortal Sect?"
"Hiss! This is going to shake heaven and earth! A decisive battle between two Immortal Emperor factions could tear the sky apart!"
"Exactly! This time, I'm afraid none of us can stay clear of it. We'll have to choose a side, or we'll be fish caught in the crossfire."
After the initial shock, every independent faction across the Upper Three Dao Domains, large and small, urgently recalled its members from abroad and temporarily shut its gates.
The far more numerous Rogue Cultivators gathered in groups of three or five to discuss what to do. The clouds of war hung over every cultivator's heart.
Just as that cultivator had said, neither factions nor Rogue Cultivators could stay clear of this war.
The order of the Immortal Realm was being remade. Two supreme Chaos Immortal Deities were vying to decide who