Lishui Imperial Palace.
By the lake.
Jiang Ning listened intently to Miaoguan, his brows faintly furrowed.
Miaoguan glanced at Jiang Ning, then continued.
"To figures like them, this world was nothing but a cage a few feet across. And that was not all."
"After becoming Immortals, they rose to a higher plane and could sense the world's origins and the River of Time."
"For such great figures, it was not only the present world that felt like a cage. They could travel upstream along the River of Time into the past. Some could even withstand its backlash and change the present from the past. To them, past and present meant nothing. Nothing remained secret, and nothing in the world could still stir their interest."
"After enough years passed, trapped in a cage a few feet across, everything lost its meaning. Nothing could spark the slightest interest."
Hearing this, Jiang Ning nodded in understanding.
He had never experienced it himself, but he could understand.
When everything was known, when time held nothing new, when every experience had been lived through countless billions of times, even the firmest Dao heart would be driven to extremes.
Before a long enough span of time, everything changed.
"Did they escape? Did they succeed?" Jiang Ning asked.
Miaoguan shook her head. "Not they. He."
"He?" Surprise showed on Jiang Ning's face.
"Yes. The lord of the Heavenly Court, the Co-ruler of Heaven and Earth," Miaoguan said. "Even those great figures had no hope of escaping. Only the greatest person in all history, the Co-ruler of Heaven and Earth who ruled the ten realms and rewrote the laws and rules of the Ten Directions World, had any chance."
"But that stretch of time was almost entirely erased by a mighty power. The great beings vanished into the