The towering city gates stood in the distance. A giant turtle's shadow roamed freely through the void, only to vanish the moment one blinked.
Several thousand immortal soldiers guarded this place. According to Zhu Yan and Lü Yiming, a Profound Immortal powerhouse was stationed here as well. But the Turquoise Turtle Immortal Domain had suffered heavy losses in its war against the wolf riders in the Phantom Mist Marsh. Of the more than twenty Profound Immortals it had once possessed, only seven were said to remain, wounded included. Compared with the other immortal domains, its situation was still far from the worst.
Across the entire Immortal Realm, the Four Heavenly Courts were the greatest powers, and the Four Seas Dragon Palaces were subject to their rule. They were still an immensely powerful force in their own right, while the Desolate Sea stretched endlessly beyond the Four Seas.
But the Immortal Realm was so vast that even the Four Heavenly Courts, despite ruling over such a broad expanse, could not reach its every corner. There were many unknown and chaotic places.
Countless dangers lurked in this endless void. These perilous regions were like changing weather in the mortal world: unpredictable and not confined to any one place.
The endless void held many regions like the ice storms Lu Xiaotian had encountered, as well as other domains of lightning and fire. Their boundaries were never fixed; they were constantly expanding or contracting.
Demons and other evil beings also haunted these places. There were many lands cut off from the rest of the world, beyond the Heavenly Courts' reach, where native inhabitants lived. They were deeply hostile to powers like the Heavenly Courts.
At any given time, some immortal domains or even larger circuit territories under the Heavenly Courts would be swallowed up