A fine rain blurred the world, and the road was muddy.
A farmer, clad in a straw rain cape and bamboo hat, led his water buffalo carefully along the road.
Ignoring the mud beneath his feet, the farmer stepped into a patch of silt.
A footprint formed, and rainwater wrapped in mud poured back into it, swiftly creating a puddle of muck.
Clumps of flocculent filth drifted and bobbed within the muddy pool.
Beneath the cover of those clumps of filth, several small stones were swept along by the backflowing mudwater.
The stones were covered in countless tiny bubbles of varying colors, beautiful to behold.
The bubbles constantly formed and constantly vanished.
The gaze settled upon one of the strange stones as it rolled.
As the stone grew ever larger in view, time itself seemed to stretch without end.
The small stone that had just been rolling violently through the murky mudwater now gradually slowed, until it was nearly still.
At that moment, the clumps of flocculent filth transformed into streams of Long Rainbow Power spanning the void.
The stone became an endless Divine Domain Continent, while the tiny bubbles upon it became the spatial barriers of the myriad heavens and worlds.
A blinding flare of fire suddenly shot out from one of the spatial barriers, skimming along the continent.
Within that firelight, a magnificent warship tore through the water of the "muddy pool" and pressed onward without pause.
On the warship, Huang Wuji stood proudly with his hands behind his back, while Cold Sword White Bamboo, Muyun Changfeng, and Jiang Feng stood calmly behind him.
All four raised their heads to gaze at the deep, unknown Chaos Divine Realm.
Even for someone at Huang Wuji's level, the Chaos Divine Realm remained a dangerous unknown.
The only thing he knew