Withered Wood, Qing Ming, and Xuan Shi gradually merged into the First Realm.
Only when they began merging did they understand why Xuan had told them so much in advance.
The First Realm was truly weak!
It was like something enormous entering an extremely tiny space—one careless move, and it would burst apart.
Withered Wood and Qing Ming cautiously released their power, allowing it to merge into the heaven and earth of the First Realm.
Xuan Shi was merging with heaven and earth as well, but his power was comparatively lower, so he was not as cautious.
None of them dared to disobey.
On one hand, Xuan's threat forced them to do so. They did not doubt in the slightest that Xuan possessed the ability to kill them in an instant, so even without seeing Xuan here, they did not dare be careless.
On the other hand, they also wanted to merge into the First Realm and see that supreme road.
As Withered Wood merged into the heaven and earth of the First Realm, some aspects of heaven and earth underwent tremendous changes.
In the past, after a tree died, it might take half a year, a year, or even longer to rot into mud.
But now, that process had accelerated countless times over.
It was not as though decay could be completed in a day or two, but in seven or eight days, or half a month, it could finish what had previously taken half a year or a year.
When things that should have decayed all began accelerating, the metabolism of heaven and earth naturally accelerated as well.
The entire world brimmed with vitality.
Though Withered Wood cultivated the power of withering and decay, what he brought to the First Realm was vitality.
What followed was Qing Ming's