In the void beyond the domain, within a corner of the Horn Wood Flood Dragon Mansion of the Eastern Azure Dragon Seven Mansions.
A streak of immortal light lit up from nothingness, and Shen Mo's figure emerged from it.
If one stood in the Xuanhuang Immortal Realm and looked up at the starry sky, one would see a dim region amid the chessboard-like radiance of the Dipper Mansion of the Kang Earth Raccoon. This was where Shen Mo now stood, and it was also the heaven-and-earth gateway he needed to guard after attaining immortality!
"This place is far too desolate!" Shen Mo muttered as he looked around.
As far as the eye could see, there was only dimness and loneliness...
This starfield was filled with ruined, withered worlds and the remains of stars on the verge of extinction. The sparse starlight was incomparably faint, permeated by the aura of deathly stillness and decay.
Though it had not yet become a cosmic ruin, it was not far from it.
Within the withered worlds, heaven-and-earth spiritual qi was so weak it was nearly nonexistent. The greater environment was exceptionally harsh, and there was not the slightest trace of life—not even the hardiest gu insects or microbes existed.
It was unknown whether life had never been born here, or whether all creatures that had once inhabited these worlds had perished!
Moreover, this place was strewn with traces left by rampaging spells and divine abilities. Clearly, as one of the heaven-and-earth gateways, it had countless times become a battlefield where Immortal Dao powerhouses and remnants of the old days fought to the death, eventually turning into this state through battle after battle.
Many of those spells and divine abilities were of an exceedingly high level and nearly impossible to erase. Yet because this starfield