Those were seeds of contamination.
Through Chen Yan's eyes, the karma of the countless living beings in the Azure Crossing Continent should have intertwined and connected in the form of threads.
Yet at this very moment, a strange presence had contaminated the Karmic River.
To describe them in the terms of Chen Yan's previous life, those seeds of contamination were more like chewing gum that had been chewed and then heated.
They stuck those karmic threads together in an utterly indescribable way.
This was a phenomenon Chen Yan had never discovered before, whether in the River of Time or when using the Void Annihilation Method to observe heavenly secrets in the world.
With his consummate understanding of the Void Annihilation Method, Chen Yan soon reached the only possible conclusion.
Those seeds of contamination did not belong to this world.
Precisely for that reason, how those seeds of contamination should be defined was self-evident—
The Outer Dao.
But why?
According to the Purple Mansion Heavenly Monarch, the Azure Crossing Continent had originally been a domain within the Purple Mansion Realm.
If Chen Yan truly held the heaven and earth authority of this domain, then, since its name was inscribed on the Purple Mansion Heavenly Monarch's Great Dao Boundary Stele, he should also have been a Sage under the Purple Mansion Heavenly Monarch's command.
Except... Chen Yan was still a long way from becoming a Sage.
Once an Immortal Cultivator's cultivation reached beyond the Ascension Realm, talent alone was far from enough.
What mattered more was whether they could find a path of their own.
As it happened, Chen Yan had neither talent nor aptitude for comprehension.
With his current gifts, merely touching the threshold of the Ascension Realm was already his limit.
Reaching the True Purity Realm through cultivation was naturally