Immortal Realm Calendar, Year 140,000.
Those Innate Dao Embryos once born within Primordial purple qi stepped into the long sleep of extinction with the grief of heaven and earth.
When the patterns between their brows split open by three inches, Great Dao golden lotuses withered into stone. Dust shaken from their sleeves fell into the sea of clouds, transforming into Barren Mountain Ranges stretching a hundred thousand zhang.
A sword cultivator in seclusion discovered that the "Undying" Dao Patterns engraved upon his life-bound sword were quietly collapsing beneath the starry night. Wherever their fragments drifted, the vegetation for a thousand li instantly endured the withering and flourishing of a hundred lifetimes.
An ancient bearer of a stele upon an enigmatic turtle halted his steps. The River Diagram Immortal Runes on its shell were reversing into chaotic hexagrams—this was the final chapter of life that even those who calculated Heavenly Secrets across all sides had never foreseen.
Upon Seeking Dao Cliff above the Nine Heavens, the jade-green cushions upon which the first generation of beings had sat and passed away while discussing the Dao ignited without fire. From the ashes rose nine incomplete Great Dao Immortal Runes.
An old ancestor who used stars as chess pieces suddenly felt a stabbing pain in his fingertips. Looking down, he saw the galaxy flowing through his palm lines rushing backward into the vault of heaven.
As they watched the Primordial Unity Qi at the eyes of the Yin-Yang Fish gradually dim, they finally comprehended heaven and earth's most merciless truth: the end of everlasting life and eternal sight was merely returning the word "eternity" to the River of Time.
At this moment, the immortal qi between heaven and earth seemed to carry the sigh of twilight. As it brushed past the Great Dao Stairway,