After a long while.
He let out a soft sigh into the wind.
Behind him, the Immortals from the various Spirit Manors exchanged glances. They could not trace the karmic threads of a True Immortal, nor could they learn what exactly had happened to make Xuan Li, a True Immortal, reveal the faintest hint of emotion in his eyes.
Could it be the Eternal Ancient Immortal Territory...
The Immortals dared not speculate further. What they saw and the scenery before them had never been the same; any wild guesses would surely be worlds apart from the truth.
"Fellow Daoists." Xuan Li nodded lightly. "My apologies for the intrusion."
With that said.
He seemed unwilling to remain here any longer. Following the wind, he vanished directly, leaving not a trace behind in Tiandi—profound beyond comprehension.
Immortal Realm Calendar, 330 million years.
The Heavenly Secrets Dao Palace of the Eternal Ancient Immortal Territory had suppressed the Great Dao of the Immortal Realm for twenty million years. Just as Xuan Li had anticipated, throughout those vast twenty million years, no one in the world attained the True Immortal Dao.
Yet it was also as anticipated.
The Immortal Realm flourished. Countless new generations rose without end; from sects in the wilderness to the branch lineages of major organizations and Dao traditions, innumerable Great Dao branches emerged.
Conflict within the Immortal Realm had never ceased. It had merely shifted from the great wars where all races joined the struggle to battles between the powerful. Tribulation Transcendence Heavenly Venerables and One- to Five-Tribulation Immortals continued to fall in great numbers.
Only Six-Tribulation Immortals could truly be considered the Immortal Realm's old fossils—unpleasant to look at, impossible to kill, with countless incarnations, making it impossible to tell which one was the true body.
Within the Qingxu