Twenty-Ninth Heaven of the Spiritual World

PS: The numbering of the Spiritual World heavens was reversed before. The highest is the Thirty-Three Heavens, while the one below is the First Heaven. It has now been corrected. My apologies, everyone—just setting the record straight here.

Within the Spiritual World, Zhang Chen's Primordial Spirit stood before the Elixir Furnace, his eyes fixed on the world before him. He could sense the unseen tides of fate. The day the Innate Embryo was refined would be today.

Looking over the entire world, he saw that it stood in stark contrast to its former frozen state. Back then, ice and snow had blanketed everything, sealing all things in frost. Though the entire world had been frozen, it still contained the energy needed to nurture life. So long as the ice was melted away, the world could once more transform into a vibrant little world overflowing with vitality. But where was any sign of life now?

The earth had cracked apart, turning into a web of fissures, and the ground had completely become yellow sand. The mountains, rivers, and vast marshes were all crimson now, without the slightest trace of life.

The sky was gray and murky, as though the entire world had entered a dim twilight. An indescribable deathly stillness filled heaven and earth.

Sun True Fire blazed fiercely within the Elixir Furnace, while the powers of Earth, Water, Wind, Fire churned inside it. Peals of thunder constantly rang out from within the furnace.

"Rumble—"

Then, at some point, a distant mountain suddenly collapsed like loose sand, turning into dust and scattering away, sending smoke and dust soaring into the sky.

"That is..." Zhang Chen's face filled with shock at the sight.

"All things between heaven and earth are linked by qi, with qi serving as the order that supports them.