One day later.
The Chen Household's Immortal Boat crossed ten thousand miles and finally arrived steadily outside the Cold Abyss Secret Realm.
The Cold Abyss Secret Realm lay in the Windfrost Snow Domain in the western Cold Abyss Nation. Here, ice sealed a thousand miles and snow drifted across ten thousand miles. Snow-white Divine Mountains rose and fell in endless succession, and the chill had never dispersed through the ages.
The secret realm's entrance was neither hidden in an underground cavern nor nestled within a spiritual peak. Instead, it hung high above the summit of the most towering snowy mountain.
At the center of the sky floated an enormous secret realm vortex, black and red spiritual light flowing over its entirety. One half was dark as ink, the other blazing as crimson flame. Yin-Yang Qi intertwined around it as it slowly rotated at a steady pace.
The vortex breathed out an ancient, boundless Dao resonance of the secret realm, separating the laws of the worlds within and without. It was the Cold Abyss Secret Realm's sole entrance.
Dozens of Immortal Boats of different designs were densely moored in the air around the snowy mountain. Spiritual light shone at varying heights, and waves of oppressive power rose and fell. They all belonged to the great aristocratic clans within the Cold Abyss Nation.
Chen Changming stood at the bow, his gaze sweeping indifferently across the gathering, passing over every Immortal Boat and the assembled cultivators. Then he said softly, "Patriarch, the Imperial Clan hasn't arrived yet."
On the journey here, through his conversations with Chen Yuanyue, Chen Changming had learned that the Cold Abyss Nation's Imperial Clan never traveled aboard ordinary Immortal Boats. Whenever the secret realm opened, they rode their exclusive exotic beasts, Snow Domain Flying Eagles, through the sky. Their