Somewhere.
The Star Lan Clan venerable envoy who had once demanded tribute from them gaped, his mouth opening and closing as it trembled, his eyes nearly bulging from their sockets.
He slowly leaned against a cloud-top structure and sat there limply. At last, he buried his head in the soft clouds that conformed to his body. Recalling those events from back then, not only did his entire body go weak, even the lake of his heart became incomparably hollow.
"An illusion..." After making that sound, he fainted dead away.
High above the clouds.
Chen Xun raised a hand and swept up Ni Canghuan's body. He merely cast a calm glance at the Star Lan Clan beings around him, who feared him as they would a tiger, and said, "The Star Lan Domain is vast enough for you to live well. I will take this man away. Do not provoke war again."
"We obey!"
"We shall remember Your Excellency's words..."
The remaining four Sky Lan Saint Lords wore grave expressions, their words steeped in profound reverence.
They were the first batch of Innate Beings in the Immortal Realm, as well as the sacred ancestors of the Starwave Winged Clan. Yet after Ni Canghuan descended upon the Star Lan Domain ten thousand years ago, they had been unable to defeat him, and their entire race had become his servants.
Yet one cloud always rose higher than another. This supreme Immortal Lord had still been suppressed by the exalted one with a mere raised hand...
They had also come to understand a truth. Above the cloud-top firmament lay the Dao Sea, above the Dao Sea lay regions, and beneath the clouds in the lower realm lay earthly territories. The world was boundlessly vast, and powerful beings were endless. They could only harbor