Countless mighty figures floated in the heavens, confronting one another from dozens of miles apart.
Between them, a colossal arched bridge slowly descended from the sky, finally spanning the very center of the immense lake.
The blue stone bricks atop the bridge emitted a dazzling azure radiance. Laws flowed through them, and an ancient, desolate aura continuously swept outward in all directions.
Lin Xuan stood transfixed, feeling as though the laws upon the bridge had tugged at his very consciousness. His Spiritual Sea churned violently, as if he were about to fall into some abyss.
"Wake up!"
Luo Tongtian's voice boomed like a great bell, reverberating through Lin Xuan's Spiritual Sea and dragging him back to reality.
"What... is that?"
Lin Xuan hastily withdrew his gaze, not daring to look again. Shock roiled silently within his heart.
"The Bridge of the Mortal Realm!"
Luo Tongtian spoke in a calm voice.
"A supreme immortal artifact forged from the accumulated fortune of the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion over countless generations, one of the strongest immortal artifacts in the Azure Cloud Realm."
"The Bridge of the Mortal Realm can drag immortals down into the mortal world. It is said that it was once a bridge between immortals and mortals. When immortals stepped onto the Bridge of the Mortal Realm, fallen immortals became mortals; when mortals crossed the Bridge of the Mortal Realm, they shed mortality and became immortals!"
Lin Xuan's pupils abruptly contracted, and the shock in his heart refused to settle for a long while.
"So that means the Bridge of the Mortal Realm was once an immortal path?"
Luo Tongtian nodded. "That's right. And it was an incomparably brilliant path of ascension."
"Unfortunately, no one knows what happened. It was severed, and no one has been able to ascend through the Bridge