Many figures had already gathered in this place.
Had any veteran powerhouse from the Primordial Era been here, they would have recognized the figures standing beside the River of Time. Every hazy silhouette of light was a peerless Great Immortal whose might had reached the heavens in the Primordial Era.
A hollow, empty Tribulation Qi permeated their surroundings.
This Tribulation Qi had been eroding the Great Dao all along.
It had also been eroding their very existence.
The perceptions of the world were a double-edged sword.
Cultivators who had not stepped onto the path of Transcendence could hardly avoid the influence of the perceptions of living beings across the ages.
Admittedly, the Great Dao they cultivated was not founded purely on Incense and faith.
But the thoughts of annihilation from endless living beings were just as terrifying.
One must not underestimate time, nor look down on the living beings of the myriad worlds.
The foundations of their existence were now engulfed by waves of living beings' thoughts, each bearing a terrifying aura of annihilation.
The earthshaking commotion in the present world was enough to rouse even this place, isolated from all the boundless reaches beyond.
"The path of Transcendence has appeared."
A deep, muffled voice rang out.
"Transcendence..."
Another hazy silhouette of light gently raised his eyes. Rather than the pupils of an ordinary cultivator, they held a sun and a moon, one in each eye.
It was profoundly strange.
Above the Immortal Ascension Realm, bizarre and fantastical scenes emerged one after another.
Lu Qing saw many figures, many paths of the Great Dao, and Dao Shadows faintly stirring at the ends of countless paths.
Breaking through and taking this step had happened in no more than a single thought.
Yet it encompassed Lu Qing's entire history of cultivation.