Late Stage Dharma Appearance. The sun rose and set, and time flew by.
At some unknown point, the wind and snow that had blanketed heaven and earth vanished.
As the ice and snow melted, tender shoots poked through the remaining frost, and burgeoning vitality spread across the plain.
The green robe remained unchanged, as did his rapidly advancing cultivation, showing no sign of slowing.
Yet under the influence of the Furnace Rules spilling forth, this once unremarkable plain gradually gained a few mysterious qualities.
The core principle of the Furnace Rules was plunder and devouring.
Such an influence was clearly no good thing within the normal Heaven and Earth Order.
The plain that had brimmed with life had already become utterly deathly silent.
All vitality was plundered and devoured under the influence of the Furnace Rules, then evolved into all manner of bizarre phenomena.
The low-level Monster Beasts that survived through the survival of the fittest also gained a measure of devouring nature. The earth became deep pits that swallowed everything approaching them, while vortices in the void resembled devouring Black Holes...
They were strange in every conceivable way, eerie to the extreme.
What had once been a plain even ordinary Qi Refining Realm cultivators could set foot upon had, under the influence of the Furnace Rules, become a forbidden zone for living beings.
Any cultivator who had not grasped Rules and entered it would likely face mortal danger at once.
The Thousand-Year Tribulation descended abruptly. Its course did not exist in this world, and its end was equally abrupt.
Apart from the few who had noticed it in advance within Divine Mechanism City, it could be said that no one else knew of it.
Yet the strange phenomena on this plain could clearly not go unnoticed by outsiders.
Especially