Void Darkness Light Sea, Xuanyuan.
Unlike the pyramids of the Celestial Court or the vast star maps of the Star Palace, Xuanyuan—also a super Jietian—was structurally very similar to the Immortal Pivot.
Both were boundless continents.
The sun, moon, and stars revolved around the continent, forming the entire Jietian system. Yet Xuanyuan differed fundamentally from the other Jietian.
Xuanyuan had no Fruit Positions.
Here, everyone based their path on ritual-refining Spells. Thus, they did not cultivate Fruit Positions, and even their entire cultivation system differed enormously from those of other Jietian.
In Xuanyuan, there were no named realms, only distinctions between cultivators.
Those newly entering cultivation were called qi refiners. Those with modest attainment were called Spell Masters, and Spell Masters of different ranks wore different crowns and robes.
At the pinnacle of a Spell Master, one could advance another step.
They were called Celestial Masters.
At this level, one's status was equivalent to a Golden Core True Lord of the Immortal Pivot. They received the worship of Xuanyuan's trillions of living beings, served as teachers of Heaven, and governed the principles binding Heaven and Earth.
Xuanyuan, the northern desert.
This place was exceedingly desolate. As far as the eye could see stretched an endless sea of sand. Yet amid the yellow sands that filled the sky stood a magnificent Immortal mountain, impossible to distinguish as real or illusory.
Above the Immortal mountain, a mass of blazing flame-light coiled like a long rainbow, yet raced like lightning. Peals of thunder rang out, illuminating the mountain inside and out. This anomaly persisted for a long while before finally fading, revealing a figure seated atop the peak, drawing in and exhaling the spiritual qi of Heaven and Earth.
Suddenly, a deafening boom rang out.
Immediately afterward, the figure violently spat out a