Cultivation knew no years.
At this time, the Great Tribulation of Dragon-Han had passed, while the Tribulation of Witch and Monster had yet to begin.
Dao Ancestor Hongjun had already become a saint.
Just as Shen Gui was preparing to take action, Hongjun's first sermon had begun.
On this day, countless great cultivators left their own cave abodes and headed into the chaos beyond the Thirty-three Heavens.
This was the sermon of the first saint since the creation of heaven and earth. No one could ignore it.
Even the Three Pure Ones, who prided themselves on being Pangu's True Lineage, and the proud Di Jun and Tai Yi left their cave abodes to seek the Purple Cloud Palace Hongjun had spoken of within the chaos beyond the Thirty-three Heavens, let alone everyone else.
Across the entire Primordial Wilderness, aside from great powers such as Phoenix Ancestor, who was unable to leave because she was suppressing the Undying Volcano, every great power above Daluo departed from the Primordial Wilderness.
As for those below Daluo, they simply could not survive in the chaos. No matter how unwilling they were, there was nothing they could do.
The chaos was vast and boundless, and the Purple Cloud Palace drifted without fixed location.
Therefore, whether one could reach the Purple Cloud Palace depended entirely on one's own fortune.
To put it bluntly, if Hongjun wanted you to enter the Purple Cloud Palace, you could find it with ease. If Hongjun did not want you in, no amount of effort would matter.
Of the hundreds of millions of seekers from the Primordial Wilderness, only three thousand ultimately reached the Purple Cloud Palace.
The rest of the seekers either lost heart and returned to the Primordial Wilderness, or perished outright in the boundless chaos.
The vast chaos had never been a kind place.
Though Daluo could theoretically survive within the chaos, that was all.
In some perilous regions of the chaos, even the Chaos Demon Gods of old might perish, much less these seekers, whose cultivation was at most at the peak of Daluo.
Those who knew when to stop returned to the Primordial Wilderness, while those who remained obsessed could only stay in this chaos forever.
And the Three Thousand Guests of Purple Cloud who ultimately reached the Purple Cloud Palace were the victors among countless seekers.
For one reason or another, they had caught the eye of Hongjun or the Heavenly Dao, and thus arrived at the Purple Cloud Palace.
They would be qualified to hear Hongjun's sermon, then return to the Primordial Wilderness to continue their legends. As for those great powers who had fallen in the chaos, they became but a speck of dust in the vast river of time and space.
The road of seeking the Dao had always been thus.
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