The Fourth Heaven, with its vast, boundless territory, had been connected to the Fifth Heaven and beyond by countless threads since ancient times.
Whether through ancient Ascension Channels, hidden cross-realm Teleportation Arrays, or secret paths through the void carved out by mighty cultivators,
all of them preserved a sliver of hope for the Fourth Heaven's experts to climb higher.
Yet on this day, every hope was abruptly severed.
As though an invisible giant hand had seized it by the throat, the spatial barriers surrounding the entire Fourth Heaven suddenly thickened.
Every passage, every sense of connection, every link to the higher heavens was forcibly cut off in an instant!
It felt like suddenly going deaf and blind, or being imprisoned in a land with no escape.
Naturally, the first to sense it were the early-stage Emperor Venerable Realm ancestors of the eighteen supreme sects standing at the pinnacle of the Fourth Heaven, whether they were in seclusion or standing guard.
Boom!
In the east, within a magma-churning cave abode in the Divine Flame Gate's forbidden grounds, an old man with red hair and eyebrows snapped his eyes open, flames erupting within them.
"Who dares seal off the road to the heavens?!"
In the west, deep within the Dark Gold Sect's secret vault, a burly man whose entire body looked cast from metal let out a low roar that shook the golden mountain.
"You dare sever my Dao Path? You're courting death!"
In the south, atop an ancient tree at Greenwood Cliff, an old woman in green robes struck the ground with her vine staff, her expression dark.
"What a vicious move. They mean to destroy the very foundations of our Fourth Heaven!"
In the north, at the bottom of the Blackwater Palace's icy pool, a sinister-faced old man in black