Azure Wood Immortal Sect.
This was a world formed from an impossibly विशाल towering azure tree. Living beings multiplied upon it, countless plants grew in dense profusion, and cultivators were born here and died here.
The Azure Wood Immortal Sect had thus endured in prosperity, suppressing this realm for hundreds of thousands of years.
At this moment, at the center of the shade cast by the Azure Wood Divine Tree's world, Taiyi Azure Wood Qi, dense to the extreme, filled the air.
Eight terrifying auras, as heavy as planets, gradually awakened. Their injuries stabilized and no longer worsened.
The Azure Wood Immortal Sect was the best place in the realm for healing injuries.
"We failed."
"There was no miracle."
The aged voice of the Heavenly Secrets Immortal Palace sighed. "People often focus only on pure strength, while dismissing such intangible things as spirit and Fighting Intent. They believe that in desperate circumstances, these things can be ignited, allowing one to surpass one's limits."
"Now it seems that although such things are intangible, there is still a heavenly chasm between them, one that cannot be crossed no matter what."
The other Great Powers fell silent.
Self-preservation in the face of life and death was entirely instinctive.
How could that be overcome?
If one expended tremendous effort and endured endless struggle to truly overcome one's instincts, only to truly die afterward, then what?
Would they merely be making a wedding dress for someone else?
"There is no need to speak of this."
The Great Power of the Myriad Beast Immortal Sect said in a muffled voice, "If we could not win, then we could not win. I was the first to flee—I admit it—but none of you did much better.
"When life and death were on the line, I did not see