The third realm of the Immortal Ascendant Realm, and the thirteenth major realm on the long Path of Immortality, was the Void Creation Realm.
Immortal Cultivators who attained the Dao of Void Creation were respectfully known to the world as "Heavenly Monarchs."
They governed the realms of the heavens and could travel freely through time turbulence and space-time faults.
They were the beings who ruled over all things, the highest existences known to the realms of the heavens.
Yet above the Heavenly Monarchs of the Void Creation Realm were existences even more ethereal and unreachable.
Dao Venerables of the Primal Beginning Realm, and Dao Ancestors of the Celestial Heaven Realm.
But Chen Yan now seemed to believe that the cultivation methods he had mastered—the Hidden Immortal Art, the Great Evolution Art, and the Void Annihilation Method—might well have some connection to those ethereal, unreachable existences.
"You seem to have many questions."
Seeing Chen Yan's reaction, Pu Wenyu spoke in a very calm, even relaxed tone.
"Indeed. This is the first time I have heard... the name of the Purple Mansion Heavenly Monarch."
Chen Yan admitted it frankly.
"That is only natural."
Pu Wenyu first nodded, then continued:
"Still, you are not from the Heaven-Stabilizing Continent either, are you?"
"Indeed, I am not from the Heaven-Stabilizing Continent."
Chen Yan continued.
"As for your true cultivation realm, it is certainly not the Martial Spring Realm. Although you have suppressed your cultivation, you still leave openings... the Guiyi Realm?"
Pu Wenyu spoke slowly, then shook his head:
"No. Judging the openings you have revealed in the most superficial way, you ought to be a Guiyi Realm cultivator.
"But your state of mind, your demeanor, and the influence everything in your past has had upon you all point to one thing.
"You were once