The last wisp of rosy light from the closing Heavenly Gate faded completely into the Void.
Li Yun felt space-time twist violently around him as boundless Chaos Spirit Qi from a higher plane swept toward him, carrying profound and unfathomable Heaven and Earth Dao Principles.
His meridians and bones trembled faintly under the wash of that pure Spirit Qi.
The next instant, his feet touched cold, solid ground.
He looked up, and a barely perceptible flicker of surprise crossed his usually calm eyes.
Before him lay neither the vast continent he had imagined nor a world arranged like the lower realm.
Instead, there was an immeasurable Starry Sky, dazzling beyond belief.
The dark, fathomless sky stretched without end, as though it encompassed all of heaven and earth.
Countless stars, large and small, hung within it, shining brilliantly.
Every bright star radiated abundant life and a Martial Dao aura so immense it made the heart quail.
Between the stars, silver rivers spanned the heavens, while liquid Spirit Qi drifted slowly as mist.
The concentration of Martial Dao power here was more than ten thousand times that of Blue Star or the Purple Moon Continent.
Even the drifting motes of Spirit Qi would have counted as Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures in the lower realm.
So this was the Hengwu Domain.
Not a single continent, but a vast world borne by an endless Starry Sky, where countless Life Stars coexisted.
Li Yun stood still and slowly closed his eyes, spreading his awareness to probe the surrounding laws of heaven and earth with all his strength.
A moment later, an aura familiar to his very bones emerged clearly within his senses.
The Martial Dao Ladder!
Even after crossing planes to reach the supreme Hengwu Domain, this core pillar of the entire Martial Dao