"Fellow Daoists, we should leave first."
"The Eternal Ancient Immortal Spirit is strange. We may have already been tainted by the Immortal Realm's greatest Inauspiciousness."
"The Dao Ranking List takes priority."
"Indeed!"
As soon as the words fell, their expressions hardened, and they were about to flee.
But at that very moment!
--Rumble rumble rumble!!!
From beyond the Northern Wasteland Realm of Boundless, an unimaginable immortal radiance descended like a Lightning Tribulation.
It was an enormous phantom of heaven and earth, emerging from chaos, stretching across the cosmos and blotting out the entire Star Domain. Its sheer size was indescribable, unimaginable!
It had not truly descended. It was merely the pull of a wisp of will, a gleam from a Dao Realm—yet in an instant, every formation, barrier, and seal throughout the Immortal Realm shattered.
"Ah?"
"W-what... what is that?!"
"Not good! Great calamity—retreat!"
The phantom slowly descended upon the world.
It resembled an ancient great realm that did not belong to the entire Immortal Realm. Chaos was its soil, myriad Daos its mountains, and billions of stars drifted through it like dust.
Amid the hazy heaven and earth, some great powers seemed to vaguely see boundless immortal cities upon it, all formed by innate creation. There were Undying Heavenly Steles inscribed with the Immortal Life Source, and indistinct immortal figures standing upon mountains, seas, and clouds—each an ancient Dao Immortal of a great path!
At that very instant.
Bang!
The sound of heaven collapsing rang through heaven and earth.
The entire cosmos suddenly darkened!
Even the blazing suns of the Nine Heavens abruptly went out, turning into ash-gray gloom.
An immense shadow spanning the Star Wilderness seemed to slowly step into this era of the Immortal Realm!
It was not a mountain, not the sky, not a