Ten years later.
Mysterious Star Immortal Realm. The phantom image of the Four-Heaven Star Gates in the Eternal Ancient Immortal Territory slowly cast its reflection over the mountains and rivers.
Five thousand years ago, the Four-Heaven Star Gates had successfully reflected themselves upon heaven and earth. Now that the Immortal Realm's living beings were flourishing and the Heaven Territories had so many orphans, it suited the wishes of the Eternal Ancient Immortal Territory's many Dao lineages perfectly. They descended at random to recruit disciples.
If they descended in a fixed region, first, they would miss countless orphans from other Immortal Realms and Immortal Domains. Second, that fixed region would inevitably be monopolized by the powerful, and Immortal Realm orphans would no longer appear there at all.
Rumble...
Four ancient starry seals suddenly lit up above the Nine Heavens, faintly taking the shape of four mysterious stairways stretching between the Star Gates and the Immortal Realm, as though they existed across hundreds of millions of years of time and space.
Every stairway had been weathered by the years, mottled and indistinct, yet still emanated an ancient Dao intent that made all heavens tremble.
"All fated ones whose Soul Age is under a thousand years may ascend to Eternal Ancient and enter the Dao."
Ethereal Dao voices descended from the heavens, blowing across mountains, rivers, and earth veins. Countless ignorant living beings surged forth from the land. Those whose Soul Age exceeded a thousand years were barred outside, while the rest flocked continuously toward the Star Gates as though climbing a heavenly stairway along an immortal path.
They feared that if they ran too slowly, the opportunity would be gone!
And the Immortal Realm truly did receive quite a few inexplicable opportunities from the heavens now and then. Its living beings seemed