No Calamity and Reverse Calamity collided—one cleaving heaven and severing the Dao, the other annihilating all with a single sword.
Yin and yang reversed in chaos; all laws returned to emptiness.
The laws of heaven and earth collapsed, and all things fell into the void. This strike directly erased the small pocket realm where the Golden Palace stood, exposing the Western Kunlun that the pocket realm had concealed.
Western Kunlun had always been there, but for some unknown reason, it had shifted farther west. Its entrance was veiled by boundless golden energy before vanishing from between heaven and earth.
With nothing beneath him to stand on, Xiang Yuan plummeted from the sky. He drew a deep breath, swept the last of the golden energy into his mouth, and gulped it down. It felt like blades ripping through his throat, and he could only exclaim at how potent it was.
Looking down from high above, he saw nine layers of immortal mountains standing majestically beneath the firmament. Mist wreathed the peaks, sometimes coiling into dragon shapes, sometimes spreading like a phoenix's wings. The Vital Energy of heaven and earth was so dense it had nearly solidified, flowing through the ravines as seven-colored rosy light.
Western Kunlun!
The Jade Pool immortal realm lay atop Western Kunlun. Its waters were crystal clear, yet unfathomably deep. Smooth as a mirror, they rippled with a faint seven-colored halo, and every wisp of vapor contained the Dao resonance of longevity.
At the center of the pool stood a pure-white palace. Before it rose twelve jade pillars, carved with beast motifs like coiling chimeras and flood dragons. Beyond that, there were no lavish embellishments.
Plain and unadorned, every inch of it carried the flavor of the Great Dao's ultimate simplicity.
Xiang Yuan narrowed his eyes at the