The Entrance Vanished, the Storm Temporarily Settled

In less than an instant, the faint, half-real, half-illusory sheen around the Reincarnation Portal once more enveloped the East Sea.

Then another disturbance, faintly resounding above their Dao Hearts and Spiritual Hearts, arose, making people's hearts tremble despite themselves.

"Why did the Reincarnation Entrance disappear so quickly? It shouldn't have."

"Could those who failed to come out have already entered true Reincarnation?"

"Across the various eras, the Reincarnation Entrance had only manifested a handful of times. Though no one knew what true Reincarnation looked like within, according to the records, from its manifestation in the present age to its return to hazy Chaos, even the shortest duration had been counted in years—at least several years, while the longest had lasted three hundred years."

"How could it have completely departed after not even a few months?"

"Have the Heavenly Secrets changed again, or has some greater upheaval occurred within Reincarnation?"

Although most eyes were fixed on the West Sea, it would be a lie to say that cultivators were not curious about this Reincarnation Portal in the East Sea.

"Too fast. The Heavenly Secrets have changed. Travelers walk along the riverbank, yet the river water does not wet their clothes—what kind of Heavenly Secret is this?"

Unable to suppress the thread of curiosity in his heart, someone used yarrow stalks for divination and obtained a hazy, indistinct scene.

A shallow scratch had appeared on the back of his tortoiseshell. Using yarrow stalks and the tortoiseshell to cast a six-line hexagram, the cultivator watched the shifting lines for a moment. Though the entire Divination flashed past in an instant, he still managed to make out a little of its contents.

"Cough, cough!"

After coughing softly, a backlash of panicked unease immediately surged into his Sea of Consciousness. "I was careless. I nearly