The weapons in their hands rang softly, shattering the Plateau in an instant and reducing every trace of the ominous and the uncanny to dust.
Then, at the will of the thirteen who stood Above Sacrificial Dao, every civilization that had fallen to the uncanny races throughout history returned, along with countless sages and heroic spirits.
The vast Sacrificial Sea became one dazzling world after another, each kindling the flame of civilization.
A glorious age was brought back into being. It was so vast that even boundless Heaven was but a drop in the ocean beside it.
The thirteen joined forces, and the world expanded once more. Then several rays of light entered from a mysterious place beyond Heaven, sending its boundaries surging outward and completing its laws of the Great Dao.
If this world had once been merely a rudimentary Hunyuan world, it could now accommodate beings at the peak of Hunyuan.
Cause led to effect, and effect gave rise to cause. Though they had deliberately shaped this world, they still owed its living beings too much. Only this could begin to make amends.
The many actors departed and returned to Hong Huang.
Xuantian also drew this world into the Human Ancestral Land, where it became a training ground for its young prodigies.
Epoch after epoch passed. No one knew how many Dao Ancestors and End of the Road beings emerged from that world.
Some even reached Sacrificial Dao. They had once been only a step away from it, but had died bitterly when the uncanny races surrounded and slaughtered them.
After their resurrection, they pushed beyond their former limits, finally breaking through their shackles and ascending to Sacrificial Dao.
From then on, they pursued Above Sacrificial Dao without rest.
For a path to Above Sacrificial Dao now existed—the