Is It the Chaos Black Lotus? A Scene of Utter Despair, Yet the Years Remain Serene and Undisturbed?

Within Chaos.

Sinister, shadowy flames burned fiercely, never once dying down.

Ever since the black fire had surrounded it, the world outside Zixiao Palace had fallen into darkness and deathly silence. Within that silent blaze lurked an indescribable terror.

From that terror, which even divine sense could not penetrate, countless bronze chains floated forth.

Each chain seemed to contain vast, supreme power, the ultimate destruction of spacetime, and every kind of indescribable horror. Wherever they passed, they forcibly crushed Chaos apart into Earth, Water, Fire, and Wind. The Three Thousand Great Dao Laws twisted beneath their dreadful might into strange, cloudlike vortices.

They collapsed and re-formed again and again!!!

And Zixiao Palace, the Dao Ancestor's Dojo... was covered in countless black cracks!!!!!!

Countless chains blanketed Zixiao Palace as black flames blazed. The devastating assault pushed this realm of Beyond the Heavens to the brink of collapse!

At the sight,

The cultivators who had come to Zixiao Palace for the banquet felt their hair stand on end.

Regret was written across more faces than anyone could count!!

If they could choose again, if they could do it all over, they would never come to Zixiao Palace!!!!

Covet the connections they could make at Zixiao Palace?

Come to Zixiao Palace for fun, broaden their horizons, and gather stories to tell later?

Stand out at the Immortal Dao Assembly, win the Dao Ancestor's favor, and rise to the summit of the Primordial Wilderness?

They could forget all that!!!!!

What use was attending the Immortal Dao Assembly when surviving would be lucky enough?!

Heavenly Dao Saints were undying and indestructible, and the Dao Ancestor surely had ways to save himself. But wouldn't the rest of them be done for in the end?!!!!

They must never casually attend another banquet hosted by the Dao Ancestor!!!!!