"Many thanks."
Chen Nianzhi put away the ancient talisman. After thanking the Glazed Divine Lord, he headed toward the immortal domain.
He did not know how long he traveled before reaching the West Extreme Heaven Domain and arriving at the edge of the Sky-Pillar Immortal Domain.
At the westernmost reaches of the Sky-Pillar Immortal Domain, at the edge of its boundless immortal-domain membrane, Chen Nianzhi saw a towering ancient tree that pierced the heavens.
It stood at the end of the Sky-Pillar Immortal Domain, rooted in its western extremity, larger and loftier than an entire heaven domain.
It held up the vast heavens and earth. Every leaf and branch was steeped in golden radiance, brimming with unprecedented divine wonder.
At the crown of that ancient tree, Chen Nianzhi could clearly sense an incomparably dazzling golden brilliance illuminating all the heavens.
"The West Extreme Heavenly Pillar, one of the Four Spirits of Immortality."
"Kunwu!"
Chen Nianzhi murmured slowly, his expression turning incomparably grave.
Having cultivated all the way to this point, Chen Nianzhi had gradually come to understand more and more about the Sky-Pillar Immortal Domain as his cultivation rose.
As far as he knew, the Sky-Pillar Immortal Domain contained thirty-three layers of heaven domains. Within the four heaven domains of East Extreme, West Extreme, South Extreme, and North Extreme stood four ancient creation trees.
These four spirit roots were known as the Four-Pole Ancient Trees of east, south, west, and north. United as one, they formed the innate spirit root, the Four-Pole Ancient Tree.
The four ancient trees supported the Sky-Pillar Immortal Domain and merged with the earth veins of its four poles, giving birth to four incomparably ancient true spirits of the immortal domain—the Four Spirits of Immortality.
These four spirits were Yu Jia, the true spirit of the