Fifty-six million years later.
The world had not ground to a halt because of the meeting between those two young men and the appearance of the stone platform deep within Desolate Ridge, in the Southern Bright Region of the Heaven-Stabilizing Continent.
Everything continued to develop.
The Great Dao Boundary Stele had collapsed, and the former Qingluo Three Thousand Realms had become a heap of loose sand.
No one had thought to inherit Heavenly Monarch Qingluo's achievements and unite the Three Thousand Realms.
For the Sages of the Qingluo Realm, the Void Creation Realm remained impossibly distant.
Among the many realms that existed now, the cultivators of the true purity realm cared about only one thing.
Heaven and earth authority.
To hold dominion over an entire realm and wield the authority of a Sage was the lifelong pursuit of countless "False Sages" in the true purity realm.
Chaos had become the only melody of what had once been the Qingluo Three Thousand Realms.
The Chenping Continent was no exception.
Clad in the Plain White Daoist Robe, Qin Qingyu stood alone on the Wanfa Platform atop Du Cang Mountain.
Holding the bronze mirror, she looked up at the sky above her with a grave expression.
Like the beating of a heart, countless transparent cracks appeared across the heavens and expanded.
Then, in an exceedingly brief span of time, they began to contract again before finally disappearing.
This was not a problem with the heaven and earth laws of the Chenping Continent. Although Qin Qingyu, who was still only a void return realm cultivator, did not wield the continent's heaven and earth authority.
She could sense that nothing abnormal had happened to this realm. Everything was peaceful.
In other words, the intrusion had come from beyond the heavens.
Qin Qingyu still remembered the