Within the Muddy Field, dark mud surged, boundless and endless.
The extreme turbidity of an entire Great Universe seemed to have gathered here.
Since ancient times, the Great Dao of All Heavens had always followed "clear qi" to attain the Dao. Though clear qi had been warped and polluted, it was still considered clear qi.
Muddy qi, meanwhile, naturally stood on the opposite side of the Great Dao. Even an Outer Void Saint who carelessly absorbed Heavy Mud Qi would suffer the collapse of all cultivation and realm, perhaps even die with Dao and body extinguished.
Yet during the Primordial Chaos Era, a great figure had emerged who cultivated from the reverse side of the Great Dao. No one knew that figure's origins; they did not even know whether muddy qi had existed first, or whether that figure had. Using muddy qi to attain the Dao, that figure was jointly revered as the Mud Venerable.
This Mud Venerable had once exchanged blows with Emperor Yin. Though defeated, the defeat had been calm and unhurried.
After that battle, the Mud Venerable suddenly vanished. Rumor had it that the figure had left the First Sequence Great Universe Ring Chain.
But after the Mud Venerable disappeared, from the Primordial Chaos Era onward, no living being had been able to attain the Dao through muddiness.
At this moment, the Mud Palace surfaced. It not only drew Outer Void Saints here; even the Qingyun Dao Lineage, the Void Annihilation Society, and the quasi-saints of the superior clans at the Remnant Ruins level sensed the summons of opportunity and came streaking through the air.
But this was the Muddy Field!
Even if muddy qi surged upward in defiance of the void, somewhat lightening its obstructive crushing force, it was still no place ordinary quasi-saints could enter.