A Great Rebellion

The Burial Dao Abyss had existed since ancient times, so far back that its origins could no longer be verified. This abyss was like a wound in the Earth Immortal Realm: the waters of the Celestial River flowed into the Celestial Sea, and the waters of the Celestial Sea plunged into the Burial Dao Abyss.

It was vast beyond compare. Standing at one section of the Burial Dao Abyss and looking ahead, one saw only boundless gray-blue emptiness, with no opposite shore in sight.

Flying over the Burial Dao Abyss and looking down, one saw only a deep, dark void, with no idea where it led.

There was a saying that the Burial Dao Abyss was where the Dao was buried, where the Heaven and Earth Great Dao lay entombed. Another said that the deepest part of the Burial Dao Abyss was the Ruins of Return. When the universe reached its end, it would be swallowed by the Ruins of Return.

When the Ruins of Return swallowed the universe's final wisp of light, they would transform into the land of origin and open a new universe and world.

There was yet another legend that the Burial Dao Abyss was the universe's wound, and that this universe itself was a gigantic cavernous abyss. Because this wound existed, the Heaven and Earth Great Dao of this universe was incomplete.

Since ancient times, the Burial Dao Abyss had been revered as a sacred place. Yet during the six hundred thousand years since the New Immortal Court was established, it had rarely revealed any trace, as if someone had deliberately hidden it. Only more than forty thousand years ago, when he was still the Heavenly Venerate of the Department of Dou, had Xu Ying seen this place while traveling.

There, Xu Ying comprehended the