Before Purple Firmament Palace

Time passed quickly. In the blink of an eye, another multiverse epoch had gone by.

At this point, fewer than five thousand years remained before the Second Lecture at Purple Firmament Palace.

Though the gates of Purple Firmament Palace had yet to open, the Three Thousand Purple Firmament Palace Guests had almost all arrived and were waiting on the platform before the palace gates.

This naturally included great divine powers such as Yuan Yan, Yuan Jie, Yuan Lun, Yuan Ling, Nuwa, Fuxi, the Three Pure Ones, Jieyin, Zhunti...

Yuan Yan swept his gaze over the crowd and found that, among the many Top-Tier Innate Divines, everyone except the Twelve Ancestral Witches, Jiufeng, Di Jun, and Taiyi had arrived.

However, although the Twelve Ancestral Witches and Jiufeng had yet to show themselves, they could actually be considered present already.

They were hidden within the chaos not far from the platform outside Purple Firmament Palace, each secretly watching over a region of chaos as they waited for Di Jun and Taiyi to appear.

Though they had concealed themselves well enough to fool the other powerhouses, they could not fool Yuan Yan, Yuan Jie, Yuan Lun, and Yuan Ling, who had already broken through to the Middle-Stage Primordial Golden Immortal realm. They could not even fool Nuwa and Fuxi.

Although most of the Three Thousand Purple Firmament Palace Guests were familiar faces, two or three hundred had been replaced.

Over these thousand epochs, some Purple Firmament Palace Guests had perished amid struggles for opportunities and karmic entanglements, leaving vacancies that other Innate Divines naturally filled.

The Three Thousand Purple Firmament Guests were fixed in number, but their identities were not set in stone.

Time trickled by. Suddenly, Yuan Yan raised his eyes and looked toward the chaos.

Though that region of chaos was