However.
Only then did Gui Hongdao notice that a swollen-faced strange beast was tethered in the patch of immortal grass beyond the peak. Its eyes held the calm detachment of one who had seen through life and death. It looked at Gui Hongdao as well, but quickly shifted its gaze away.
A trace of melancholy gradually surfaced in the strange beast's eyes.
It had once been the mount of the Cosmic Sea's Immortal Ancestor, second only to one and above ten thousand. Then, one day, it had passed through a certain region...
Only to be inexplicably gored into grievous injury by a Black Bull, wounds that had yet to heal even now.
Then it had been tied up outside the door.
Half a month later.
Rumble!
"Greetings, Immortal, Immortal..."
"Ah?!"
Bang...
Another sweat-soaked, prostrate figure appeared outside the Immortal Hall.
"...Supreme Clarity?!"
"...Hong Yuan?!"
The two lowered their heads and exchanged honorific titles in astonishment. They appeared to be old acquaintances.
Hong Yuan's expression shifted magnificently before turning utterly silent. The Immortal Ancestor... had also been suppressed?!
He had originally intended to beg the Immortal Ancestor to purge the calamities of the Cosmic Sea, yet he had not expected to deliver himself right to their doorstep. This place seemed to be the lair of the "calamity."
Hong Yuan's heart instantly sank to the bottom of the sea, gradually eroded by an unimaginable despair.
The Immortal Ancestor's expression was profound, yet he remained calm and composed.
Later, something strange happened.
Peerless Immortals from the Cosmic Sea kept arriving, including no lack of supreme beings. Thus, the dumbfounded bang bang sounds outside the Immortal Hall grew increasingly frequent, and more and more Immortals lay prostrate there—more than two hundred in all.
Every one of them wore an expression of horrified shock,