The Five Elements Dao Law seemed to be everywhere,
yet also as if it had never existed.
From the instant Zhang Qingyuan stepped through the "great gate," the world within his sight seemed to dim in a single moment, as though he had fallen into an endless abyss of dark void—lonely and vast, still as death, eternally unchanged for hundreds of millions of years!
Anyone cast into this dim, empty expanse would likely feel an unprovoked terror rise from the depths of their heart.
But Zhang Qingyuan's heart merely stirred slightly before quickly settling once more.
He had more important things to do!
He closed his eyes,
focused his mind,
and his Spiritual Sense silently spread outward, as though drawing down some power from beyond the heavens!
Soundlessly,
within that eternal dark void, specks of light suddenly rose like an exploding galaxy, appearing like flickering candles in the night before transforming into dazzling Stellar Rivers!
Boom!
Starlight blazed in all its splendor. River after river descended into the mortal world, becoming intersecting roads that illuminated this eternally dark world!
The power of the Five Elements
had descended!
Time passed.
While Zhang Qingyuan sealed off the islands and entered seclusion, comprehending the Five Elements and evolving the Great Dao,
outside the South Sea,
at the edge of Cloud Water Sect territory, where land and sea met at the Boundary Stele,
a figure stood with hands behind back. Scarlet-gold light flowed through his pupils as he gazed toward the sky vault, as though seeing through layers of void beyond the heavens to the island floating amid the vast sea.
Beneath his feet,
reefs dozens of zhang high rose in sheer cliffs. The sea surged, waves weighing tens of millions of jin crashing one after another against the dark reefs. White spray more