"What?"
Upon hearing Mingri Xuan's words, everyone in the [Akatsuki] organization instantly went pale. None of them had expected such an outcome in the end.
Mingri Xuan was the one who had been hiding behind the scenes, and he had remained hidden until only now.
"You hid within the Immortal Sealing Platform all this time for this very moment?" Lin Chuan asked grimly.
"That's right." Mingri Xuan nodded, looking relaxed and composed.
He was in no rush to claim the spoils of his final victory. Instead, he looked down upon his defeated foes with all the poise of a victor.
The pressure of the Immortal Sealing Platform continued to radiate outward. Everyone present was already unable to exert their strength. This altar, capable of sealing immortals, possessed almost irresistible and terrifying power when it came to suppressing cultivators' strength.
"Do you know why so many people are unwilling to ascend to immortality?" Mingri Xuan asked with interest, his calm gaze sweeping over Shi Jin among the [Akatsuki] organization.
"Because immortality is poisonous?" After a flicker passed through his eyes, Lin Chuan replied.
"Yes, and no. Immortality being poisonous is both the cause and the result," Mingri Xuan said. "When the cultivation world had just formed, a gate suddenly appeared and split the not-yet-fully-formed cultivation world in two—your world and ours. The so-called Immortal Realm is actually an area near that gate where the two worlds intersect." Mingri Xuan explained calmly.
"This..."
Everyone who heard this was stunned, their faces filled with disbelief.
The Immortal Realm they had always yearned for and pursued was merely a region where two worlds met? And what did it mean that immortality was poisonous? Could the highest realm every cultivator sought be nothing more than a lie?
At that moment, many cultivators' entire worldview collapsed.