Boundless mist blotted out heaven and earth, reaching up to the firmament and down to the Yellow Springs. Its depths stretched for untold thousands upon thousands of miles, turning every direction of the universe into a cage and treating all living beings as prisoners.
Riiip!
A dazzling streak shot in from the distance, plunging into the mist in a single flash. Brilliant firelight blossomed like lightning tearing across the sky, instantly piercing the mist that seemed to have stood indestructible for millions of years and blasting open a colossal hole.
The hole bored straight through the mist to some unknown destination. Stray arcs of lightning burst apart amid violent tremors, and the Mist Sea seethed like boiling water, churning fiercely as fissures appeared one after another.
After an unknown length of time, the region gradually settled.
Mist streamed into the torn fissures, but some force seemed to linger in the enormous hole that had been pierced through it, making the mist fill it at an exceedingly slow pace.
Taisui Blessed Land.
Within the Blessed Land Space, Hong Yuan stood with his hands behind his back. Before his eyes, a streak of clear light seemed to fly in from Beyond the Heavens, breaking through the gray-white mist surrounding the blessed land on all four sides.
Hong Yuan felt a cool sensation spread from between his brows. Then his sea of consciousness churned, images flickered, and the [Karmic Calamity Dao Seed] manifested. Vast, wondrous radiance spread out, merging into every part of the blessed land.
Taisui Blessed Land suddenly trembled. The entire space expanded rapidly, more than doubling in size in less than a blink and pushing the mist into endless billows.
Before the spatial upheaval had stopped, a number surfaced in Hong Yuan's mind. As the blessed land's master, he shared