Legend had it that in the Primordial Era, the Immortals of the Nine Heavens had discovered a vast cosmos. There was something strange about it, but because it did not touch upon the fundamental Great Dao, they treated it as merely an unusual place.
They never searched for it again.
Yet accounts passed down later recorded that, after the Primordial Cataclysm, the legacies of several Daoist Dojos had fallen into that Long River of Time.
They knew this because one of the objectives in a world they had previously entered concerned it.
That world held information about one of those Daoist Dojos.
From it, they learned that the Great Thousand World contained wonders beyond imagining.
A heaven beyond the heavens was hardly so strange.
"Let's see how it goes. Surely nothing too serious will happen."
In the end, they could only leave it at that.
Plenty of people wanted to uncover Dreamland's secrets.
That much was to be expected.
Several decades passed. The Cultivation World had not changed much, apart from the addition of the Mountain-Sea Second Cultivation Realm.
Elsewhere, there had been no further changes.
Talents grew ever more numerous, and names on the Hidden Dragon Ranking changed ever more frequently.
"That Providence—is it Ye Kong's?"
"What happened to him?"
Someone spotted an omen in the northwest: dark clouds devouring the sky.
They asked in astonishment.
In the present world, cultivators sometimes entered the Mountain-Sea Realm to evade attacks that would otherwise kill them.
But this Providence Devouring was strange. Surviving did not mean one's Providence could not perish.
Their Providence shifted away piece by piece. Once it was devoured completely, they would likely suffer misfortune after leaving the Mountain-Sea Realm.
From the looks of it, Ye Kong, first on the Hidden Dragon Ranking, seemed to have clashed with