Unexpected Turn

Azure Cloud Grotto-Heaven, Spirit Void Domain.

A streak of golden light descended from beyond the nine heavens. When the radiance faded, seven figures were revealed, each still shaken and pale with lingering fear.

"Shen Mo?"

The white-bearded elder dressed in the robes and crown of the River-Facing Sect Supreme Elder was the first to recover. Seeing Shen Mo seated cross-legged upon the jade platform, he could not help crying out in shock.

In the next instant, the astonishment on his face deepened, mixed with delight and disbelief. "You've become a Heavenly Monarch?"

"Ancestor Gongsun, it has been a long time." Shen Mo smiled faintly.

This white-bearded elder was none other than Gongsun Jiuru, the River-Facing Sect Supreme Elder. Along with him, Shen Mo had brought Yang Xuan and several other cultivators from the Four Great Immortal Sects back to Azure Cloud Grotto-Heaven.

The return of Gongsun Jiuru and the others immediately caused an uproar throughout the Red Flame Sect.

After all, they had fallen into the outer domains while gathering intelligence on the Heavenly Demon Realm. They could be considered meritorious figures of the Red Flame Domain.

Not long after the Outer Realm Heavenly Demons launched their full-scale invasion of the Red Flame Domain, each of the Five Great Immortal Sects had dispatched a Supreme Elder, accompanied by Spirit Sea Realm experts from their sects, into the Heavenly Demon Realm through the Heavenly Demon Passage.

Later, heaven and earth underwent a drastic transformation. The Primordial Beginning Realm drifted down from the Universe Tree, and its connection with the Heavenly Demon Realm was completely severed...

Everyone had believed that Gongsun Jiuru and the others had perished in the Heavenly Demon Realm. Who would have thought that, before the great upheaval, they had returned to the Primordial Beginning Realm through the