Rising from the Abyss, the youth stood between heaven and earth. The lake of blood churned beneath his feet, and the Dao intent of aging raged around him, yet it could not wither his flesh.
His flesh was reborn amid ruin, sublimated in the Extreme Realm, deathless and indestructible!
And at that moment, he broke free of his shackles, forged his Dao Heart from all things in heaven and earth, and stepped into the Four Establishments Realm!
Now his Dao Heart had transcended the mundane, allowing him to roam freely between heaven and earth.
Waves of aura, like furious tides and the Abyssal Sea, surged toward him from every direction, gathering upon him as the aura of the Dao Heart Realm slowly spread.
But the escaping aura was devoured by the Dao of aging raging around him.
The youth raised his head. His face was almost perfect, as though painstakingly sculpted with mountains and rivers for ink and brush.
His eyes were as piercingly cold as glaciers, devoid of emotion. They seemed like heaven and earth looking down upon all living beings, lofty and aloof, bearing the indifference and coldness of having seen through every sea turned to mulberry field, every thing and event, every life.
It was as though nothing could move him. Without sorrow or joy, beyond life and death, he resembled an emotionless true god!
But as something stirred his gaze and drew it toward one side of the blood lake below, he spotted a black Universe Jade Belt draped over a rough chain hanging into the lake. His glacial eyes gradually showed signs of thawing.
Then, slowly, warmth emerged from the cold. That indifferent, supreme Heavenly Heart overlooking all things descended into the chest of this body and fused completely with his flesh. It was a