In a boundless, gray-hazed space stood a palace called the White Cloud Hall. Inside, a young woman in green suddenly opened her eyes and vanished.
In another gray-hazed space stood a thatched cottage, with an osmanthus tree out front and two stone stools beneath it. A middle-aged man in gray suddenly looked up at the void.
Before long, the young woman in green arrived. She called him "Big Brother," then stared at the vortex in the void.
Rumble...
It sounded like thunder from a clear sky—something that should have been impossible in Hongmeng Space.
A flash of light shot into a universe. Then a golden book appeared and fell beneath the osmanthus tree. Everything went still again.
The middle-aged man picked up the book and read it through, his face lighting with excitement and longing.
"A different cultivation system. Qi Refining, Foundation Establishment... Heaven Treading, Wu Shi, Wu Dao, Wuji, Creation Supreme, Thick Earth, Radiant Heaven.
"Such profound realms. From these descriptions, our cultivation is only comparable to the Supreme Realm."
"What?" The woman in green was stunned. "Big Brother, this..."
"Don't worry," the middle-aged man said. "That unknown being probably wants to raise his offspring without our interference. That's why he's shown us the path ahead.
"We really were frogs at the bottom of a well. We thought we'd reached the pinnacle of cultivation."
The woman in green nodded. "Even without a reward, after seeing power like that, we wouldn't dare interfere.
"It seems that supreme being isn't evil, at least."
Ten thousand years drifted by. On an enormous planet, its largest city was named Void City because it housed the headquarters of Taixu Tower.
The master of Taixu Tower had risen to prominence ten thousand years ago and reached the second level of Mystic Immortal.
That