Xuan Qing walked on at an unhurried pace, treading through endless clouds of Chaos as memories of the past surged through his mind.
He still remembered his first journey across worlds into Sin Domain City. Every detail remained vivid, as if it had happened yesterday.
Back then, he had only just entered the Sin Domain. He had watched every step, kept his edge hidden, and plotted his way through a perilous land crowded with powerful foes and rival factions, where every move was constrained.
In those days, the Sin Domain's power structure had stood firm, unchanged for ages.
Forces large and small had risen and fallen. Countless minor factions had quietly perished, while countless newcomers had risen in their place. Among the masses, lesser powers had come and gone without end.
But the great orthodoxies that occupied the Sin Domain's highest tier, governed the rules of Chaos, and held the Ten Thousand Clans and their factions in check had endured for ages. They had locked the old order in place. No one could break it, and no one dared challenge it.
The Great Dao Unification Sect, Heavenly Prison City, and the other supreme powers had looked down on the heavens from on high. They had treated the Prehistoric Era as insects and cross-world conquest as a trivial matter, holding the power of life and death over the entire Sin Domain.
But now that he had returned, the times had changed. The world was new!
One earth-shaking battle in Chaos had torn the ancient order to pieces!
The once-unassailable powers had collapsed. Long-established supreme factions had been uprooted, Supreme Beings imprisoned, and overlords slain. The order that had ruled the Sin Domain for ages had been utterly destroyed.
Under Xuan Qing and the Prehistoric Era's thunderous assault, the ancient hierarchy of