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Upper Domain, Beyond Heaven.

Stars encircled this place, nearly without end.

A Saint had once calculated that the number of celestial bodies here exceeded hundreds of millions, centered around the Mythical Realm and forming an enormous astral disk.

It stretched upward into boundlessness and downward into infinity.

Even Saints needed several thousand years to reach one of its ends.

This place was unimaginably vast. Even the enormous Mythical Realm could not compare. Its resources could practically be called inexhaustible, its rare treasures too numerous to count.

More importantly, it was far safer than the Mythical Realm. There were no two man-eating lands like Heaven and Hell, nor were there the terrifying sights at the center of the Mythical Realm.

If it had any drawback, it was that most of its stars were likewise unsuitable for living beings, formed as they were from peculiar energies and environments.

Another was that the farther one went from the center of the Mythical Realm, the lower the concentration of extraordinary particles became.

Once one reached its fringes, it was practically a land of the Dharma's end. Dao resonance did not exist there, the extraordinary remained hidden; aside from Saints, who could maintain their realms without decay, even Da Luo would shed their divine radiance and fall into the mire after spending some time there.

It was a taboo, and even more so, a forbidden ground.

At this moment, in Beyond Heaven, upon a secluded island beyond the Mythical Realm.

This was an island for refining red gold. Beneath it, a vast, immense star was being crushed bit by bit, its matter extracted, transformed, and smelted.

Every year, this place produced an unimaginable quantity of red gold—more than a hundred trillion tons.

Countless celestial bodies like it lay nearby, all containing unimaginable amounts of red-gold