The Grand Unity Assembly had begun a hundred thousand years ago and had long since settled into dust. All Grand Unity Experts had returned to their places, and the River of Time had regained its calm.
The auspicious clouds of Grand Unity Heaven had scattered into drifting clouds across the Prehistoric Universe, while the Dao patterns before the divine palace steps remained unchanged.
Yet the lingering echoes of the gods' deliberations from those years had long been swept by a hundred thousand years of calamity winds into an inescapable gloom between heaven and earth.
Within the calamity, all was desolate.
Over these hundred thousand years, the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation had been established and the Investiture of the Gods hung high. It had been a hundred thousand years of surging undercurrents, and the climactic clash between Primordial Lord of Heaven and Sect Leader Tongtian could erupt at any time.
The human Shang Dynasty had long been turned upside down. Di Xin's imperial decrees could not leave Chaoge, while Daji of the Nine-Tailed Demon Clan had broken through to the Quasi-Saint realm. Demonic Energy soared into the heavens above the Human Emperor Hall, as though foretelling something once more.
The Human Emperor had lost the Dao, and the fortune of the Three Realms had declined. All preparations had proceeded in silence, while Xi Qi seemed to have risen completely.
The other feudal lords had long vanished into the river of history.
The pill smoke of Jade Void Palace had remained undispersed since ancient times. The Twelve Golden Immortals under Primordial Lord of Heaven had gradually drifted farther apart amid their tribulations.
The tides crashed against Golden Ao Island. Sect Leader Tongtian stood atop Zizhi Cliff, gazing at the vanished brilliance of the myriad immortals.
His grand vow to teach without distinction