Four thousand years ago, when more than a dozen Heavenly Venerables of the Primordial Grand World returned from the Central Dao Domain to the Primordial Grand World, they passed through the Chaos Antiquity Dao Domain and were ambushed by the Chaos Antiquity Immortal Tomb, one of that Dao Domain's strongest forces.
In that earthshaking battle, Eastern Sovereign Primordial Unity, whose path to Heavenly Venerablehood was flawed, died and fell. Hongjun Grand Heavenly Venerable, the strongest of the Primordial Antiquity, also vanished after battling the revived Immortal Tomb Lord, a supreme powerhouse at the half-step Transcendence level. To this day, he had yet to return to the Primordial Grand World.
In that heaven-shaking war that spread across vast swathes of chaos, Sui Zhu Heavenly Venerable had vanished as well.
Han Yi had happened to be at Sui Zhu Heavenly Venerable's side at the time. After narrowly escaping with his life, he returned to the edge of that immense battlefield, intending to investigate Sui Zhu Heavenly Venerable's whereabouts, only to inadvertently discover a terrifying sea of flames.
When he left the sea of flames, a golden giant egg within it broke free of the flames' restraints and followed Han Yi away. Within that giant egg, Han Yi sensed Donghuang Bu'er's aura.
After all, he had once been Donghuang Bu'er's beastmaster, and Donghuang Bu'er had once been his beast companion. Although their beastmaster-companion bond had been severed, they were more familiar than anyone with each other's auras.
With the situation urgent at the time, Han Yi gave it no further thought and kept the golden giant egg by his side.
More than three thousand years ago, when he left the Immemorial World and passed through the Eastern Sovereign Territory, the golden giant egg began to stir. The place toward which it pointed was