With a Wave of His Hand, a Realm Vanished

The Gray-robed Man's face darkened until it seemed water might drip from it. The void in this region began to fracture layer by layer in response to the changes in his emotions.

He had been invincible for a thousand years. Ever since he had gained complete control over the Ancient You Eight Great Realms a thousand years ago, within this "Gu You Immortal Domain," he had become synonymous with "supremacy."

Thus, all these years, he had devoted himself to cultivating his descendants.

Though he was already invincible, he remained stuck at a bottleneck he could not break through. He knew clearly that his fortune had run dry, and that he would never advance another step for the rest of his life.

So he placed his hopes upon his descendants, hoping to use his methods and the cultivation resources of all Eight Great Realms to raise a Heavenly Dao Qilin Child.

Fortunately, Heaven had shown favor to the Lin Family. A hundred years ago, his 102nd-generation great-grandson, Lin Feng, displayed talent so exceptional that even Heaven would be jealous!

In a mere hundred years, he had risen from someone with Innate Crippled Meridians to his current Transformation Spirit Realm.

A hundred years, to the Gray-robed Man, did not even count as the duration of a single period of seclusion. It could only be considered a brief nap.

Thus, in his eyes, Lin Feng was like a young Spirit Transformation cultivator who had suddenly appeared in his family after he awoke from a brief nap.

Back then, it had taken him a full five hundred years to step into the Transformation Spirit Realm. At that time, such speed had already allowed him to tower above the masses.

Achieving Spirit Transformation in a hundred years—even as the master of the Eight Realms of the Immortal Domain, he could not help but sigh, "Talent so great that Heaven would be jealous!"

Therefore, ten years ago, he had sent Lin Feng into the Yuan Kui Realm, secretly focusing on grooming him as his successor.

Moreover, five years ago, he had received good news from the Yuan Kui Realm: Lin Feng had already cultivated the Transformation Spirit Four Treasures. He was only one Treasure away from the legendary Transformation Spirit Five Treasures! Back then, he himself had barely cultivated only three Spirit Treasures.

Therefore, he regarded Lin Feng as the Lin Family's greatest hope.

But how long had it even been? Five years, to him, was merely the time it took to close and open his eyes—yet when he did, both the man and the world had vanished without a trace!

The Gray-robed Man let out a heavy breath, first suppressing the rage on the verge of erupting.

Then he began to analyze.

Why had the Yuan Kui Realm vanished out of thin air? The Yuan Kui Realm had always been the richest and most central realm of the Gu You Immortal Domain. Since ancient times, the Gu You Immortal Domain had fought over it for more than a million years.

Yet every ruler throughout the ages, including those Immortal Domain rulers who had long since ascended, could only fight for control of the Yuan Kui Realm. They could fight for it, and nothing more—they could absolutely never "move it away"! So how could a perfectly fine great realm possibly disappear into thin air?

Furthermore, this place was a patch of nothingness. There were no traces of battle whatsoever, ruling out the possibility that it had been detonated.

Besides, if the entire Yuan Kui Realm had been blown up, then the whole Gu You Immortal Domain would have been blasted into fragments as well.

The Yuan Kui Realm gave the impression that it had been forcibly dug out, because although there were no traces of battle, an extremely obvious gap had been left in the space here.

This "gap" was not the absence of space. It was the absence of laws, rules, and even time! It was as though someone had moved everything in the Yuan Kui Realm away out of thin air! Looking across the ancient history of the entire Immortal Domain, no one had ever been able to move away the entire Yuan Kui Realm without anyone noticing—not in the past, not in the present, and not in the future! "Jiang Cheng."

"Guard me."

"I am going to conduct a deduction."

With that, the Gray-robed Man sat cross-legged in the void.

The golden-armored Brawny Man waved his hand, releasing surging spiritual power that compressed and sealed all the void here into a perfectly isolated barrier, ensuring absolute safety.

The Gray-robed Man hardened his heart and directly burned one-tenth of his Essence Blood.

In an instant, terrifying blood energy enveloped his entire body. His form became illusory, and a powerful aura burst forth.

Even with the Golden Armor Man guarding him, the tiny amount of aura that leaked out caused the surrounding void to begin twisting.

Only when he saw the king directly burn his Essence Blood did he realize just how serious the matter was.

Now, throughout the entire Immortal Domain, the king was an unparalleled existence standing at the very pinnacle.

What person, what kind of existence, could make the king willing to burn Essence Blood just to perform a deduction? At this moment, the king was at his weakest. The Golden Armor Man could not afford to be careless. He controlled the hundred-inch space they occupied, constantly shifting through Space Cracks.

This method could prevent certain Realm Kings with ill intentions from discovering the king's current weakness.

The king was the ruler of the Eight Realms. Though no one dared challenge his royal might, if certain Realm Kings discovered an opportunity, they would certainly spare no cost to drag the king down from his throne.

After all, the position of King of the Eight Realms was simply too tempting.

To deduce how the Yuan Kui Realm had disappeared, the Gray-robed Man did not hesitate to burn his Essence Blood.

Though his primary purpose was to find traces of his disciples and descendants, there was another important reason: he wanted to know whether it had been moved away by someone.

If it truly had been moved by a "living being," then he would no longer be able to sit securely as the King of the Eight Realms.

An overwhelmingly powerful existence capable of easily moving away the Yuan Kui Realm—if it wanted his head, who could stop it?

Thus, he had to eliminate this dangerous possibility.

As the deduction continued, the Gray-robed Man's thoughts began to drift, while his perspective shifted constantly. At last, he glimpsed an image.

This image came from the very moment the Yuan Kui Realm vanished.

However, the image was incomplete. He could only see a blurry half of it.

Within that image,

he saw a pair of Void Hands cross through boundless emptiness and arrive in the Gu You Immortal Domain.

Then, those Void Hands reached out and seized the entire Yuan Kui Realm.

In an instant, the entire Yuan Kui Realm was snatched away by those Void Hands, taken to some unknown place. In that final instant, through the haze, he seemed to see a figure—a figure standing on a riverbank.

The instant he saw that figure, the Gray-robed Man's deduction was abruptly cut off. He suddenly opened his eyes and spat out a mouthful of blood.

Seeing this, the Golden Armor Man guarding behind him widened his eyes and hurriedly asked, "My king, are you all right?"

At those words, the Gray-robed Man's voice trembled slightly. "Jiang Cheng, leave this place at once! Take me back!"

The next second, the Golden Armor Man did not dare hesitate in the slightest. Controlling the space around them, he brought the two of them back to a hidden stretch of void.

The Gray-robed Man's face was deathly pale. His back had already been soaked through with cold sweat, and he panted heavily. No one knew what terrifying sight he had witnessed.

"My king?"

The Gray-robed Man slowly raised his head and looked at the Golden Armor Man, speaking each word with deliberate clarity. "From this moment onward, the Eight Realms shall become the Seven Realms."

"No one is permitted to investigate the reason behind the Yuan Kui Realm's disappearance."

"Anyone who investigates it shall be executed without exception, in accordance with the Immortal Domain's highest law."

"And this matter is not to be mentioned again. That includes you."