The So-Called God and the True God

This was a world resembling Fengyun.

Here, people initially cultivated only ordinary martial arts, but later gradually developed various heaven-defying techniques. The world also contained divine beasts such as the Black Dragon, the Colored Phoenix, the Black Tortoise, and the Ink Qilin. They had taken root in four perilous lands and, after enduring through endless years, were eventually slaughtered by humanity. From this, some people with heaven-defying abilities emerged. Some even glimpsed the essence of cultivation, greatly extending their lifespans to several thousand years.

In a towering heavenly palace stood a man who called himself a god. He had created a force that stood above all living beings. With every gesture, he seemed capable of changing the heavens and earth and throwing the universe into chaos. He had lived for two thousand eight hundred years and was known as the True God of the Mortal World.

Within the Heavenly Palace—a palace seemingly built in the sky—a group of powerful experts appeared in the endless void. They attempted to ascend to the Heavenly Palace and meet this so-called True God. They had to cross a celestial river and climb a Ninth Heaven Stairway. Yet nearly all these strongest experts of the mortal world perished while crossing the river, frozen to death by the boundless chill. None of them ever managed to see the "god."

"O god, may I ask who in this world could be fortunate enough to meet you? You control everything in the mortal world, command all the grudges and affections of the martial world, and stand above the passage of a thousand ages..." A stunning mortal woman knelt before the "god" on his icebound throne and voiced the curiosity in her heart. After all, no one had ever successfully met this "god."

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