The shallow layer of dreams was remarkably similar to reality—a liminal dimension between truth and illusion.
At the boundary between illusion and reality, Lin Chen's figure manifested.
Before him lay a colossal island—no, it could be called a small continent spanning tens of thousands of miles, spread out before his eyes.
Countless towering spirit mountains rose upon it. Spiritual lights representing cultivators danced across the sky, while one enormous, savage floating spirit boat after another rose from the ground, forming a war fleet that blotted out the heavens and covered the earth, sailing tirelessly overseas day and night...
This was the core of the East Sea Immortal Alliance, the place where countless Nascent Soul True Lords and cultivators from the Central Lands had settled—the overseas immortal island—
Penglai!
"This is the place..."
Lin Chen's gaze shifted slightly.
Here, he was about to set off the origin of the Eternal Demon Tribulation that had lasted million years!
With that thought, he hesitated no longer. He took a step forward, and the scene before him rapidly solidified. He was about to cross the boundary between reality and illusion and descend into reality once more!
Yet what he had not expected was that, the next moment, an accident happened.
"What... is going on?!"
Lin Chen's true spirit erupted with intense fluctuations, revealing uncertainty and alarm.
When he crossed the medium between illusion and reality, descending from the dream into the real world, what he saw was not the boundless scenery of the East Sea, but an eternal, silent, slumbering, colorless illusory river!
"This is... the Nether River? No, that's not right!"
There was no underworld in this world. Where could a Nether River have come from?!
This was not the Nether River, but an Ancient Supreme Treasure left behind by Ancient Cultivators—the Death