The blazing sun hung high, shining over the vast sky. Scorching light poured down, and through the hazy Immortal Mist emerged a snow-white immortal mountain.
As the Immortal Mist billowed, bone-piercing cold winds swept across the mountain, freezing the air and bringing the Power of Heaven and Earth to a standstill.
The immortal mountain floated in the air, with a majestic crystal-ice palace perched atop it. Countless ice-attributed immortal birds circled the crystal-ice palace in flight.
The immortal mountain and crystal-ice palace simply hung there, yet strangely, no matter from what angle one gazed into the distance, their full forms could be seen.
Below the immortal mountain sprawled a vast region encompassing every kind of terrain—rivers, lakes, seas, lava volcanoes, deserts, and dense forests, all were present.
This was Azure Province of the Upper Realm, home to the Immortal Imperial Clan, the Cloudfall Immortal Clan. The Immortal Imperial Clan's territory was vast, and this immortal mountain was the core of the entire imperial clan.
Suddenly, terror appeared in the immortal birds' eyes. As though startled by some dreadful existence, they fell from the Immortal Mist and prostrated themselves upon the icy ground of the immortal mountain.
Within the palace, a middle-aged man dressed in a simple white robe slowly opened his eyes.
His gaze was utterly placid, yet within his eyes seemed to lie the cosmos itself, endlessly changing, like the shattering and remolding of the world's origin—an incomparably astonishing sight.
The Glacial Immortal Emperor, a being at the pinnacle of the Upper Realm, a fierce man who trod upon the Great Dao.
The instant he opened his eyes, a figure appeared below him, half-kneeling with utmost reverence.
"So it is in this realm!"
The Glacial Immortal Emperor, Yun Che Qianren, murmured softly, his gaze still as calm and rippleless