At this moment, in a certain Immortal Domain far away.
The wind stopped.
It stopped without warning. The mountain wind that had been howling moments ago suddenly fell mute. The branches and leaves at the forest canopy froze in midair, as though they had forgotten even how to tremble.
A suffocating silence abruptly welled up between heaven and earth. It did not feel like tranquility, but rather as if some colossal thing were holding its breath in the depths.
Cultivators of all races looked up across the land, terror appearing in their eyes.
The color of heaven and earth changed.
It was not dark clouds bearing down, nor thunder gathering overhead. Rather, the entire sky slowly took on an indescribable hue in an extremely short span of time.
It was neither black nor gray, but something deeper—as if the blood-red color of heaven and earth itself were seeping through from within the firmament, soaking the sunlight, the clouds, and every familiar color bit by bit into the murkiness that only preceded the end of days.
Rumble...!
It came without warning—the sound of water.
At first, it was merely a faint trickle, like a mountain stream murmuring in the distance. Yet in an instant, it swelled at an unimaginable speed, roaring and shaking, becoming a furious howl surging from the very marrow of heaven and earth!
The ground began to quake. Fine dust sifted down from cracks in the mountain rocks. The earth beneath their feet seemed to bear a weight far beyond its limits, groaning soundlessly.
Some cultivators shot into the sky and gazed into the distance—
Then froze where they stood.
At the end of the horizon, a world-toppling flood came rolling in. The wall of water stretched across heaven and earth, blotting out the entire distant sky. Its