They hadn't come!
The Eternal Ancient Immortal Territory had not come at all.
They simply did not care about the matter of the Great Dao Ranking...
Some powerful figures of Boundless thought so.
But the top Dao lineages of every side cared just the same. Only a mere thousand years had passed—who would dare slacken? The very moment they did would surely be the moment the Eternal Ancient Immortal Territory descended!
Yet they could not be blamed for it.
Back then, the methods the Eternal Ancient Immortal Territory had used to strike at the entire Three Thousand Immortal Domains had forced countless Dao lineages to alter the structural foundations they had inherited for eternity. It had utterly beaten them senseless. Thus, no matter how seriously they treated this now, it would not be excessive.
Ten thousand years later.
The boundless Immortal Domain gradually began to stand apart from the Three Thousand Immortal Domains. It was a feeling of Tiandi becoming independent, an isolation that prevented the outside world from descending abruptly.
Over these ten thousand years, peerless Immortal Artifacts emerged one after another within the boundless Immortal Domain.
Ten thousand years had traversed the developmental course of nearly a million years in the Three Thousand Immortal Domains.
That year.
A man named Li Buzhou slew his master in the boundless Immortal Domain to prove his Dao. His master had been a Heavenly Derivation Sage. The phenomenon of Heaven's Lament spread across heaven and earth, rivers and mountains, while a vast and boundless Great Dao Heavenly Pillar thundered up from the ground.
He slowly sat cross-legged atop the manifested Great Dao Heavenly Pillar, ascending into the sky along with it.
Li Buzhou's gaze was deep and tranquil. Between two fingers, he held an immortal leaf and quietly watched it rise.