The grand Dao's sonorous strains echoed through heaven and earth. Countless ancient runes appeared around the four ancient immortals. These runes were vessels for their Dao Fruits.
The ancient runes glimmered and sank into the Spiritless Continent, stirring the seal at its base.
The world seal had been forged jointly by the four ancient immortals, using their respective Dao Fruits.
The Yin-Yang Dao Fruit used yin and yang qi as the foundation of its barrier.
The Years Dao Fruit could reverse time. If the barrier broke, time would flow backward and repair it.
The Survival of the Fittest Dao Fruit made the barrier impervious to repeated attacks of the same kind.
The Calamity Dao Fruit had attached "Endless Calamities" to the barrier. These calamities were infinite and unpredictable, and could only be broken through by brute force.
The four Dao Fruits' powers intertwined. Even if all four of them acted together, they could not undo the seal.
Only by having the four of them activate their Dao Fruits to weaken the barrier, then relying on the Undying Fairy's endless self-detonations, could they break the seal.
"It's still not enough. We're so close!" Ninefold Immortal said gravely.
"But this is all the power we have!" Qilin Immortal was unwilling to accept it. They had given everything they had, and this was as far as they could get?
So close, just a little more!
Years Immortal said nothing, only continuing to activate the runes and undo the seal.
Their voices weren't loud, yet they were sacred, weighted with the gravitas of history. Carried by the heavenly tribulation, their conversation reached the entire cultivation world.
The entire cultivation world felt the frustration of the four ancient immortals.
Heavenly Immortal slowly closed his eyes, as if he had made up his mind. "No. This