"That road was harder than we ever imagined!"
Fang Chen's voice echoed through the empty Great Hall, like the toll of an ancient bell, steady and weighty with the passing of years.
Every gaze in the hall rested on him. No one dared blink or breathe, for fear of missing a single word.
"The Starry Sky Ancient Road had long since been severed, and the Star Coordinates had all failed. We wandered through the endless starry sky without direction, without a goal, without hope!"
He paused, a trace of remembrance flashing through his eyes.
"We drifted through the void for years. Just when we thought we would be lost forever in the depths of the Sea of Stars, we met Senior Gu Daozi!"
"Senior Gu Daozi was an Immortal King of the Five Elements Sect. He was leading a group in search of the Heaven-Stealing Path too!"
"He told us the entrance to the Heaven-Stealing Path lay in the Abyss of Annihilation!"
The Immortal Kings in the hall frowned.
The Abyss of Annihilation.
They had never heard the name.
Seeing their confusion, Fang Chen explained, "The Abyss of Annihilation is a barrier the World Will erected in the Primordial Era. It stretches between the Savage World and the Heaven and Earth Origin Space. It is the Heavenly Abyss Wall, too high to see its summit, too deep to see its base. Formed from the World Will's Order Law, it annihilates any living being that tries to cross it with the Order Force!"
"But it isn't a wall. It's a region—a region cursed by the World Will. Countless Heavenly Slaves, members of the Devil Race, and Law Lifeforms dwell there, along with the Redwater Layer and the Clearwater Layer!"
"The Redwater Layer is a crimson ocean. Its water is thick as