Exploration in the Mist: Ancient and Modern Bright Moon

Beneath the dim sky stood an utterly dilapidated little town, desolation etched everywhere, as though this place had been abandoned for a very long time.

Beyond the town's outskirts lay a stretch of chaos. Hazy mist churned at the edge of sight, seemingly forming a wall that sealed the entire town within.

This isolation severed the inside from the outside, turning this place into an unknown prison that trapped every creature who entered.

"No. Any escape technique based on the five elements has failed. We simply can't leave this place..." Mister Mist withdrew his spellcasting hands with a grim expression, his heart sinking without end.

"It is not merely escape techniques based on the five elements. One could even say that any spell below the Nascent Soul realm has suffered unprecedented suppression here, nearly reduced to nothing. Only the power of a Dao Domain can be deployed, but even then, its coverage cannot extend beyond this town." Celestial Maiden Gu Yue furrowed her delicate brows, her expression grave. "According to the History Book of Years kept by the alliance for a million years, the only thing capable of this should be the Grotto-heaven Blessed Land of legend!"

Grotto-heaven Blessed Lands had different names in different worlds: subspaces, Spirit Realms, divine kingdoms, or Virtual Worlds... In short, they were places that did not exist within reality, half a dimension above the Real World.

The Dao Domains cultivated in this world were the embryonic forms of such existences. Beginning with the most basic influence over the five elemental attributes, then crossing the threshold of Spiritual Energy Activity Level to reverse mortality and become immortal, until they could control the Microscopic World of spiritual energy, distort space-time, and finally form a Great Dao of their own, creating origins such as spiritual energy, divinity,