Shen Ni stepped forward and raised a hand. A blood-gold radiance condensed in his palm, then he gently pressed it against the barrier.
"Buzz."
Ripples like water slowly spread across the barrier, and a doorway manifested within them.
Within the doorway, the Chaos Qi was denser and more ancient, carrying the weight of hundreds of millions of epochs of accumulation.
Xuandu looked at the doorway without hesitation and stepped inside.
Shen Ni followed close behind, his black robes billowing as he disappeared into the Chaos Qi.
Beyond the doorway, the sky was high and the land vast.
Before them stretched a boundless, desolate void.
The Chaos Qi within the void was no longer violent and turbulent. Instead, it flowed slowly, gathering into seas, condensing into mountains, and forming countless strange Chaos floating continents.
Those floating continents hung in the void. Some were only several zhang wide, while others stretched for hundreds of millions of miles, like entire worlds.
Ancient trees towered upon the floating continents, Spirit Springs trickled, strange rocks jutted sharply, and exotic beasts made their homes there.
The branches and leaves of those ancient trees were Chaos Color, the Spirit Springs flowed with Innate Dao Rhyme, the strange rocks were covered in law patterns, and Fierce and Malevolent Qi surged around the exotic beasts.
There were auras of Zenith Heaven, auras of Golden Immortals of the Origin, and even the lingering traces of Half-Step Hunyuan Taiji that occasionally flashed by.
They reflected one another like ten thousand twinkling stars.
Xuandu stood in the void with his hands behind his back, his gaze slowly sweeping across this vast Heavenly Domain.
At that moment, he sensed them.
In the far distance, toward the Northern Border, an ancient and wild aura lay buried beneath the earth like a sleeping volcano.
That