The barbarian desert, in the far west.
A mysterious figure emerged.
His face was solemn as a sculpture, his entire body shrouded in a hazy golden radiance. With every breath, he stirred a resonance between heaven and earth.
A dark cloak flowing with profound starlight covered his entire body. Its edges continuously perished and regenerated, making his aura impossible to grasp.
A jade pillar that held up the heavens stood tall, nine chains of mysterious iron wrapped around its body. Purple lightning writhed like dragons and serpents; it was like a pillar of creation, ancient and vast.
The mysterious figure formed hand seals, and ancient arrays were laid out around him, three layers within and three layers without, wholly belonging to another era.
He was the Alliance Leader of the Eternal Life Alliance, who had vanished long ago.
Yet the Four Great Guardians at his side—Azure Dragon, White Tiger, Vermilion Bird, and Black Tortoise—had already disappeared.
Rumble!
The Heaven Suppressing Pillars released a thunderous roar, like a True Dragon striking proudly at the nine heavens, sweeping across the eight wastelands and shaking the nine heavens and ten lands.
Rip—
The Heaven Suppressing Pillars were driven directly into the boundless depths of the earth, vanishing without a trace.
The multiple ancient arrays continued to flicker between illusion and reality, concealing this place.
"As expected of the variable that person spoke of. He has reached the Heaven Piercing Realm so quickly? It seems the time has come to set the plan in motion..."
The Alliance Leader of the Eternal Life Alliance murmured as he looked toward the sky, then vanished from where he stood.
Tianzhu.
Guchuan County.
Drunken Immortal Tower.
"I heard the imperial court now intends to levy taxes on aristocratic clans and martial world factions. That is quite a