Heading to the Eternal Kingdom

Yu Star Sea.

In a distant, mysterious place.

A towering tree billions of miles tall held up this world, where countless living beings thrived.

Every one of these beings emanated a peculiar life aura, and their strengths varied.

The weakest were at most at the Primordial Soul and Void Return levels of the Three Realms, while the powerful ones gave off the aura fluctuations of Ancestral Gods and Ancestor Immortals.

Those above the World Realm, however, were separated from these weaker beings and generally lived upon that towering tree.

Each leaf upon the great tree resembled a small island, and palaces had been built atop these "islands."

At a glance, those palaces were arranged like fish scales, packed densely together in the billions.

The higher they rose, the grander and more majestic the palaces became.

At the very summit of the tree even floated an enormous, exquisite palace spanning ten million miles.

Boom—

Suddenly, from one of the billions of palaces upon the towering tree—a palace built high above—a terrifying blaze and a streak of saber light shot into the heavens.

The firelight and saber light carried a frigid killing intent, their aura soaring skyward.

"Th-this is quite a disturbance!"

"What terrifying killing intent!"

"That is the Patriarch's cave residence! Patriarch Yanming's cave residence!"

"Such overwhelming killing intent—even through layer upon layer of formations and restrictions, I can still feel such a terrifying sense of danger. Who is it? Who has provoked Patriarch Yanming?"

"Patriarch Yanming is one of the few Fourth Step Dao Lords of our clan who has reached the brink of Daomerge. His strength is unfathomable..."

One by one, the beings cultivating in their cave residences were jolted awake by that overwhelming killing intent, all turning their gazes toward the palace high upon the great tree.

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