His gaze gradually darkened.
A tide of time slowly flickered in his eyes.
"Ancestor..."
"Our descendants can no longer attain Longevity. Our people are withering away."
"The Heavenly Dao has blocked the Longevity Law. The Dao Ancestor has already chosen to stand aside..."
"Ancestor, after cultivating immortality for tens of millions of years, was all we gained merely a Great Dream of a Thousand Autumns, an empty dream...? Now even the talents in our bloodline have been erased by the Heavenly Dao..."
"The Heavenly Dao is no longer our Eternal Ancient Heavenly Dao. It is targeting the living beings of Eternal Ancient!"
"How presumptuous!!"
An eternity ago, he had flown into a towering rage. It was also the first time he had lost his composure.
Later.
The Heavenly Dao gradually fell silent.
They thought dawn had finally arrived.
Yet.
The Dao Lord transformed himself into Heaven, sustaining everything.
It was also on that day that he personally suppressed the unrest of the Longevity Clan, even slaying True Immortal clansmen with his own hands. From that moment on, everything began to descend into growing chaos.
Yet he still held his ground to the death.
He clung to the rules left behind by the Dao Ancestor.
Because when the Ancestral True Immortal Realm had first opened, it was the Dao Ancestor who had brought them back to the Five Aggregates Immortal Domain, and it was the Heavenly Secrets Dao Palace that had taken them in. He had lived long enough to grow weary of life and had long ceased to care about Longevity. All he cared about was the entire Eternal Ancient Immortal Territory. Even the lives of his own race could no longer stir much emotion in his heart.
Indeed.
The ancient cultivators of the Eternal Ancient Immortal Territory had