At Heavenly Stele Peak, crimson gold radiance stretched like a sea.
Xuandu sat upright amid the surging light, his green robes draping down as his eyes rested half-closed, his mind sinking deep into his Purple Mansion.
The five streams of feedback power gathered from the Chaos Depths were slowly approaching his origin.
The dark-blue giant whale subdued by his eastern Dao body was as heavy and profound as the deep sea, carrying the weight accumulated over hundreds of millions of epochs in the Shattered Star Sea.
The two Ashen Wasteland living beings subdued by his western Dao body carried within their origins the desolation and loneliness unique to ruins.
The two Profound Ice Heavenly Domain living beings subdued by his northern Dao body possessed an aura as cold as glaciers that had never melted for ages, yet beneath that ice lay an exceptionally solid foundation.
The five streams of feedback power flowed and intertwined like five tributaries merging into a main river, slowly settling into the depths of his Purple Mansion.
He did not hurry to refine them.
Because he was sensing something else.
The Martial Dao Foundation of the Myriad Myriad Human Race Cultivators was rapidly rising within that Temporal Flow.
Golden Immortal of the Origin, Primordial Great Golden Immortal.
Realms that could once only be heard of in legends were now appearing one after another amid that sea of people.
Though the vast majority of cultivators remained stuck at the bottleneck between Golden Immortal of the Origin and Primordial Great Golden Immortal, that bottleneck was being cracked apart again and again by tens of millions of challengers.
As Xuandu sensed the changes in those auras, the tension in his heart eased somewhat.
But it was still not enough.
Though the feedback from Martial Dao Law at the Golden