The Qingluo Three Thousand Realms.
Before Heavenly Monarch Qingluo reached the Void Creation Realm, unified the three thousand Dao lineages, and took command of the heaven and earth authority of every realm.
Each realm had been entirely independent, yet connected to all the others.
Immortal cultivators, and even mortals, could travel between the realms aboard special ferry ships.
Only after Heavenly Monarch Qingluo sealed every passage between the realms did crossing a space-time fault become the sole means of traveling from one realm to another.
Within a space-time fault, neither time nor space existed as concepts.
An ordinary immortal cultivator who fell into one would remain forever frozen in a single instant.
Time would never pass, let alone allow anything to change.
Under normal circumstances, only immortal cultivators at the True Purity Realm or above could forcibly cross a space-time fault and break through the barriers between realms.
Even at the height of the Three Thousand Realms' prosperity, these three thousand worlds had held no more than six thousand True Purity Realm sages.
As for now...
No one knew.
Of the three thousand realms under Heavenly Monarch Qingluo's command, at least half no longer had a sage presiding over them.
There were still five thousand True Purity Realm cultivators in the three thousand realms.
Of those five thousand, more than three thousand held no heaven and earth authority.
And Heavenly Monarch Qingluo forbade them from seizing the heaven and earth authority of other realms.
Doing so would disrupt the karma and order of the Qingluo Three Thousand Realms, unleashing all manner of unforeseen chaos.
Pull a single hair, and the whole body would move.
That was also why Heavenly Monarch Qingluo had been so furious over Zuo He's foolish actions seven million years ago.
Back then, Heavenly Monarch Qingluo had