Shen Stakes His Life on the Three Immortals Sect's Future

Rumble—

The pitch-black cosmos suddenly spread outward. Within that heavy curtain of clouds, it was as though some existence high above the heavens had opened its eyes.

Along with a sudden clap of thunder, the Emperor and the True Buddha looked up. The seventy-two Golden Immortals and the Great Freedom Bodhisattvas all changed expression. As for the ordinary third-rank disciples, they had long since felt that inescapable palpitation. Their minds trembled violently, as though their entire shells of flesh might shatter apart.

The Great Dao had fifty paths; one escaped.

That escaped one evolved into the myriad laws beneath heaven and was called the Heavenly Dao. It resembled a colossal beast, silent as an iceberg. Cultivators followed the staircase formed by the veins of those myriad laws, drawing closer to it step by step. This process was the deduction of one's Dao path.

Reaching the second rank meant successfully slipping into the body of this colossal beast, like ants dwelling within its shell. Only under its protection could one achieve immortality and indestructibility.

But that was all.

To awaken this colossal beast, or even borrow a portion of the mighty power of "Dao" from it, there was only one way: abandon its protection and make an Immortal Oath and grand vow.

And what the Dark-Robed Dao Lord in the firmament now revealed to the thousands of disciples from the two sects... was precisely the power of the Heavenly Dao.

This was an Immortal Oath Golden Immortal!

For no apparent reason, a trace of panic rose in everyone's hearts. Beyond their reverence for the Heavenly Dao, there was also shock at Shen Yi himself.

Just how deeply could a cultivator conceal himself? One only had to look at the man before them.

From an oath-sworn Golden Immortal second only to the