As Lingbao Tianzun recounted the events in a measured voice, Yang Qing gradually gained a comprehensive understanding of what had happened back then.
True Immortals had indeed descended into the mortal world during the Mythological Era. As for why a True Immortal would descend, it was not difficult to explain.
Perhaps it had been an accident, or perhaps a great battle had shattered the void and created a spatial rift leading from the Immortal Realm to the lower realm.
Such things had not never happened before. The Undying Heavenly Emperor had originally been a being of the Immortal Realm, only arriving in this universe after falling into a spatial rift.
Regardless of the reason, when a True Immortal arrived in this universe, they were virtually invincible to the living beings of this universe.
It was like a Great Emperor and a Quasi-Emperor. They seemed to be separated by only one final step, yet the difference between them was like heaven and earth, impossible to measure.
Even though that True Immortal had been severely wounded, the fact that Lingbao Tianzun had been able to strike down an immortal in defiance of the odds showed just how astonishingly talented he was.
According to Lingbao Tianzun, it was precisely the death of that True Immortal that allowed him to see hope of transforming into an immortal.
Why was becoming an immortal almost impossible in this universe?
Aside from the fact that the Heaven and Earth Rules did not permit it, the absence of immortals in the world was also an extremely important reason.
With no immortals in the world, no one knew what immortals were like. Everything could only rely on deduction and speculation.
Under such circumstances, becoming an immortal was naturally harder than ascending to heaven!
Yet after Lingbao Tianzun slew the