When Phoenix-Lin Continent completely merged into the Azure Cloud Blessed Land, the latter underwent a further transformation.
Like a mere mortal cultivating into an immortal, this Blessed Land had changed in essence. It had ascended from a Blessed Land into a true world, one whose rank stood a head above ordinary worlds, almost second only to the Profound Yellow Immortal Realm.
Shen Mo's cultivation had risen with the tide. The immortal shackles that had long been loosened could no longer suppress his realm, and without a sound, he stepped into the Heavenly Immortal Realm!
Sensing the changes in the Dao resonance surrounding him, Yang Jingmu and the others all cast astonished looks his way.
Shen Mo sent them a message of thanks, then said, "Fellow Daoists, quickly enter this world, so that I may refine it into a sanctuary from calamity!"
Upon hearing this, Yang Jingmu and the other mighty Heavenly Immortals used their escape arts to enter the newly transformed and ascended Azure Cloud World. Shen Mo also recalled the Devil Ancestor Soul General and the Gu Diao Demon Saint into the Soul Refining Banner. As for the more than three thousand True Immortals and the hundreds of millions of living beings, they had already entered the Central Heaven Realm when Phoenix-Lin Continent was refined.
Before long, all that remained in this stretch of heaven and earth was the remnant grand formation held in place by the Eternal Immortal Lamp, along with the Azure Cloud World, which continued to expand and evolve like a cloud of five-colored radiance.
With a wave of his hand, Shen Mo summoned Wei Zhaoling's original Dao Body—the pitch-black iron block—before him.
Then, his Dharma Body extended two heaven-supporting hands, enclosing the pitch-black iron block and the five-colored cloud between his palms as he attempted