"Insolence!!"
Immortal light surged through the Star Palace in an instant. Enormous beings deep within the Star Palace stared fixedly at Lan Ji, their expressions exceptionally hostile.
Lan Ji swept his gaze across the Eight Desolations, his eyes narrowing slightly. With his hands clasped behind his back, he turned. One step set the river of stars ablaze; the next shifted the Celestial Cycle Star Orbit. He left directly, apparently unwilling to tangle further with the ancients within the Star Palace.
It was not fear. It was merely that certain balances could not be broken.
The Star Palace could restrain cultivators of the Eternal Ancient Era, while Old Era cultivators would also act with restraint because of this starry expanse near the "ten great powers." Otherwise, over hundreds of millions of years, countless upheavals would have shaken Tiandi.
There was no need to tear away this veneer just yet. He still needed to wait for the return of these ancients' "hope," then let them watch with their own eyes as that hope shattered.
Eternal Ancient Dao Ancestor, Chen Xun.
The one who pioneered the simultaneous cultivation of myriad Daos, the one who opened up Tiandi, the lord of the Ominous Clan, the great hand behind the Heavenly Dao's harvesting of All-Life Dao Fruits—he knew everything, and knew it with utter clarity.
In his childhood years.
Severely wounded, he had stumbled by mistake into that majestic Immortal Palace traveling before the heavens, thus forming a connection with the Star Palace.
At that time, the great Dao of the world was undergoing change, and the Eternal Ancient Immortal Dao was shaken violently.
He had his own ambitions. He wanted to walk the strongest path, the Immortal Dao opened by the Dao Ancestor.
That path was desolate and painful.
Yet in the end, he