After drinking the entire pot of steaming, soothing soup at the Spirit Academy headquarters and washing away the dust of days of battle, Chu Qing's Daluo state of mind had risen to the flawless Perfection of the Ethereal Realm. The warmth of mortal life and the fury of supreme slaughter had fused within him without the slightest hindrance. He bade farewell to the five women reluctant to part with him at Stone Ridge Spirit Academy and stepped into the void alone once more.
With a turn of his hand, he drew out the Nine-Colored Chaos Star Chart he had forcibly stripped from the First Observer Lord's essence. The chart floated in the deep void, trailing countless threads of cause and effect that pointed toward a transcendent route far above the myriad worlds of All Heavens, the star seas beyond, and the Lightless Sea.
Chu Qing took a step, becoming a violet-gold streak that tore through the eternal night. Following the chart's guidance, he crossed one dimensional rift after another. He passed the ruins of who knew how many shattered epochs before a vast expanse of divine chaos light suddenly rose from the formless void ahead.
At the center of those myriad rays stood a gate so immense that the sight of it could shatter an ordinary true immortal's soul. It spanned the source of spacetime and concepts. Its frame was forged from the most primal Primordial Chaos Breath, and its tightly shut doors bore the mottled marks of hundreds of millions of universes rising and falling. This was the Transdimensional Gate, the passage to every origin and every end!
Yet the instant Chu Qing approached within ten thousand li of the gate, the primal laws around it surged into a frenzy. The Void Gatekeeping Will awoke from its slumber. A