Deep within the world, a vast altar was branded into the void. Six different Dao resonances entwined there, giving rise to countless mysteries.
At a certain moment, Heaven-Bearing Origin-Initiating Divine Lord sensed something. He jolted awake from his deep concentration on guiding the ritual.
"Weilie has fallen?"
His face betrayed nothing, not the slightest change in expression, but ripples spread through Divine Lord Qiyuan's heart.
Through the Stars Paying Homage to the Pole Star Diagram, he saw a star gone dark. It represented Divine Lord Weilie.
Who did this? After the battle on Soaring Cloud Continent, Weilie turned disaster into fortune and advanced again. He'd already touched the threshold of Celestial Phenomenon Peak. With the nature of his divine abilities, even someone at Celestial Phenomenon Peak couldn't have dealt with him if he was prepared. Who could have killed him without giving him the slightest chance to struggle or call for help?
His thoughts churning, Divine Lord Qiyuan silently connected to the Stars Paying Homage to the Pole Star Diagram.
He had valued Divine Lord Weilie highly. After advancing to the fifth rank, he had intended to support Weilie's rise to the peak of the fourth rank, making him Divine Dao Founding's foremost combatant and charging him with suppressing the mortal world. Yet Weilie was dead, so suddenly that Qiyuan had not even had a chance to save him.
Advancing to the fifth rank had granted him unprecedented power, but it had also shackled him. Most importantly, he could scarcely walk the mortal world. Why had Immortal Palace Dao Embryos so rarely appeared among mortals or traveled beneath the heavens? Was it because they simply liked cultivating in seclusion? Not necessarily. The fundamental reason was that the mortal world no longer suited them. Every moment they remained there steadily drained