The Secret of Everlasting Youth (Part 2)

Ning Ye had left the Evergreen Realm only about four thousand years ago.

Yet in the Evergreen Realm, a full ten thousand years had already passed.

According to Yue Zhonghen, after the fourth millennium, Bliss Immortal Venerable broke free of his seal. But by then, the Evergreen Realm had already undergone earth-shattering changes.

The two divine trees had merged into one, and the Dao of Heaven and Earth had advanced.

The star realm itself had also inexplicably expanded. Without anyone realizing it, the Evergreen Realm had become a sixth-realm star realm.

After breaking free of the seal, Bliss Immortal Venerable had thought he could finally hold his head high and slaughter in all directions. To his surprise, Shu Wuning had also attained the Human Emperor Realm and battled Bliss Immortal Venerable.

In the Third Bliss War, the two sides fought to a draw.

Although she had failed to kill Bliss Immortal Venerable, Shu Wuning drew upon the foundation she had built over the previous thousand years to thoroughly crush the forces of Bliss Palace, formally proclaiming the Heavenly Mechanism Sect's return.

At that time, Haotian Sect and Ten Thousand Flowers Valley also formally merged into the Heavenly Mechanism Sect.

Its power flourished, and for a time its momentum was unmatched.

But Bliss Immortal Venerable had not died. He had merely continued plotting his comeback.

Thus, the two sides battled for several thousand more years.

Until three thousand years ago, when the Fourth Immortal Realm War erupted.

This Immortal Realm War was also the largest and most wide-ranging conflict since wars had first begun.

It lasted a full five hundred years. The land was devastated and its people plunged into misery; mortals were all but wiped out.

And in that battle, Bliss Immortal Venerable fully demonstrated the might of one favored