The Divine Firmament World was like an egg incubating in the depths of the Chaos Sea.
Before it had even broken its shell, a powerful heartbeat, like the beat of drums, repeatedly proclaimed its existence. It swallowed all directions and harmonized the heavens, until now... the entire universe was waiting for its first cry.
Apart from the Demon Race that had seized the initiative and formed within the womb, all the factions that had awaited its hatching these years could only listen to the stirrings of life through the eggshell.
Twelve years of time had been erased in advance. Bu Lian's final trace was like a stain wiped from the eggshell.
Now that the Heaven Gate had opened, the shell that should long since have been shattered had all become nourishment for the world.
Across the vast earth, Mountains and Rivers, every inch held its own light. Everything nurtured in the chaos of bygone time—the innate deities conceived alongside this world, the Demon Race seeds first scattered here, the sentient awareness born of this world's myriad karmic causes—all were caught in a long resonance, greedily suckling at the permission granted by their world-mother.
The towering giant trees were not alone either. Flocks of strange birds flew across the forest sea. Savage colossal beasts raised their heads and roared at the sky, while glossy-furred hoofed beasts raced across the plains... In marshes bubbling with colored blisters, there came now and then a few croaks like those of frogs.
Look to the sky.
The Divine Firmament aura, radiating a faint golden glow, suddenly gathered into clouds, and the clouds pooled into a sea.
A sword that represented both the beginning and the end split that sea apart. The Daoist robe draped around True Lord Taiyu became, after the opening of the Divine