[Five years later.]
[The seventh year!]
[You stood in an unfamiliar immortal domain.]
[Ahead was a continent suspended in the void, so vast it had no visible end, so vast even your perception could not cover its borders all at once.]
[Tai Ling Immortal Domain.]
[You had finally arrived.]
[Five years of traveling alone, crossing three hundred and seventy-two immortal domains and passing through seventeen zones of spacetime turbulence.]
[A touch of weathering had appeared on your face, yet your gaze was even deeper than it had been five years ago.]
[The inscription in your palm burned faintly. That cluster of lamplight was ahead, so close it seemed within arm's reach.]
[You restrained all your aura and disguised your cultivation as that of an ordinary Immortal King.]
[It was not fear. You simply did not want to beat the grass and startle the snake.]
[You slowly approached this continent, your perception spreading out like a tide.]
[Very soon, the full picture of Tai Ling Immortal Domain gradually took shape in your mind.]
[There was only one continent.]
[A supercontinent large enough to hold thousands of nations.]
[The continent was split in two by a colossal mountain range running from south to north.]
[To the east were fertile plains and cities scattered like stars on a chessboard. To the west was a deathly silent land severely corroded by Abnormal Matter.]
[The entire continent was wrapped in a strange barrier invisible to the naked eye.]
[It was not a barrier to defend against foreign enemies, but a cage meant to trap the living beings inside.]
[Your perception pierced through the barrier and plunged deep into the continent's interior.]
[You saw the Human Race.]
[Hundreds of millions of humans, scattered across hundreds of nations large and small.]
[They wore uniform clothing and lived