Great Splendor Mountain rose ten thousand fathoms into the clouds, like a divine general holding up the sky.
That day, thunder cracked and the winds and clouds shifted. Dark clouds suddenly shrouded the once-peaceful summit, promising a storm.
"What's happening? Great Splendor Mountain is the heart of the sect and has the power to regulate the heavens. How could such a change occur?"
"Look! There seems to be a whole world hidden in those clouds. Is it an illusion?"
Amid lightning and thunder, more and more people turned their eyes toward the summit. The phenomenon covered most of the Impermanence Sect; it was impossible to miss. Ordinary disciples were merely curious, but the high-ranking cultivators who knew some of Great Splendor Mountain's secrets had begun to frown.
"What happened? Why are traces of Impermanence and Nonexistence Heaven showing?"
Yun Wuya stood in the air, gazing at the summit with a grave expression. As the current sect master of the Impermanence Sect, he knew Impermanence and Nonexistence Heaven fairly well. That Grotto-Heaven was normally hidden deep away and would never reveal itself.
Few cultivators within the sect even knew the Grotto-Heaven existed, let alone anyone outside it.
"Could something have happened to True Lord Xuan Qiong?"
At the thought, Yun Wuya's expression changed.
The next instant, heedless of the danger, he hurried toward the summit.
Meanwhile, beneath Great Splendor Mountain, an illusory divine mountain extended steadily downward. It stood opposite Great Splendor Mountain like its inverted shadow, and an illusory Grotto-Heaven slowly emerged upon its downward-reaching slopes.
At that moment, a consciousness was slowly awakening within the illusory Grotto-Heaven.
"True Lord Xuan Qiong has been bound, and Impermanence and Nonexistence Heaven has been shaken. Anyone watching for signs should have seen it by now."
No-Self opened his eyes and looked toward