Mid-Stage Celestial Venerable, Dao-Slaying Calamity Ash

Four thousand years—if placed in the previous few Chaos eras, before the Dao Tomb emerged—might have been nothing more than an utterly ordinary stretch of time.

For a Celestial Venerable, or even a Dao Realm cultivator, an ordinary period of seclusion could last four thousand years, and its result might merely be a slight insight into some Dao technique.

But in this unusual age, with the Dao Tomb growing ever more rampant, four thousand years had been enough to witness worlds as numerous as the sands of the Ganges being driven beneath Grave Beasts toward destruction, shattering and collapse.

The Primordial Demon Sect that had perished four thousand years ago had also gradually faded without a trace. Even if some of its Celestial Venerables had survived, they were far from sufficient to rebuild the Primordial Demon Sect.

Fuheng Dao Domain, Eastern Realm, at the edge of the depths of the Transcendence Dao Mark, a sword domain spanning a hundred li had remained for four thousand years.

The several Celestial Venerables who had departed back then had all returned. Upon returning, they discovered that one Celestial Venerable had drawn quite close to the depths of the Dao Mark and had already deployed a sword domain, making it impossible to glimpse that Celestial Venerable's true appearance.

Yet all the Celestial Venerables guessed that this suddenly appearing Celestial Venerable ought to be a high-stage Celestial Venerable. Only high-stage Celestial Venerables could reach the edge of the depths.

To take another step and enter the depths of the Dao Mark required strength beyond that of a Celestial Venerable—one had to reach the Realm Venerable level.

A hundred-li sword domain was not large. Even spells cast by low-stage cultivators could cover a hundred li. Yet this sword domain at the edge of the Dao Mark