At the heart of the Southern Bright Region.
It was a solitary mountain, without a name.
Standing a little over three hundred zhang tall, it was hardly lofty. Against the vastness of heaven and earth, it could even be called utterly insignificant.
It lay only about seventy-odd li from White Cliff Town.
Thus, many mortals and immortal cultivators of lower cultivation frequently came here to gather medicinal herbs or wander through the scenery.
A handsome young man clad in the Plain White Daoist Robe stood atop the mountain. In his hand was a battered roof tile that looked utterly unremarkable, yet engraved upon it was a mysterious rune belonging to a mighty cultivator of the thirteenth realm, the Void Creation Realm.
The Dao of karma was mysterious and exacting.
Under normal circumstances, Chen Yan, who was currently only a Void Return Realm cultivator, had no qualifications whatsoever to glimpse the karma surrounding the Purple Mansion Heavenly Monarch.
Not even through a roof tile that had happened to be left behind on the Heaven-Stabilizing Continent.
But Chen Yan possessed an exceedingly profound karma cultivation method.
The Void Annihilation Method.
From nothing came existence, and in the end, all perished into emptiness.
This was the supreme principle of the Void Annihilation Method. Whenever Chen Yan contemplated this cultivation method, he gained new insights as his cultivation advanced.
Although Chen Yan's understanding of the Void Annihilation Method had long since reached the realm of divine mastery, it was ultimately still constrained by his cultivation realm.
Or rather, the same was true of any cultivation method.
The true profundity of the Void Annihilation Method lay in its ability to bypass any limitations of the "illusory image" and directly interfere with the "true image."
As for the terms "illusory image" and "true image," they were