Rustle...
Everything around him was silent. The lame old horse that had accompanied him for ages had already perished in silence. Now, the only thing that remained by his side was that Dao Artifact, the Silver Spear.
He sat quietly for a long time, all alone.
At last, he looked toward the Big Dipper. He had felt an impulse during that time, but ultimately suppressed it. Once his emotions settled, he prepared to seal himself away once more.
Crack... crack...
Suddenly, at that moment,
some sort of medium in his embrace abruptly shattered.
Ning Fei froze. A line of tiny characters drifted out from within his collar and arranged themselves in the void before him:
"Ninefold Imperial Pass, where the Phoenix Nest lies."
At the sight of this, his hand trembled slightly.
He was silent for a moment, then his body rose slowly, quite against his will. He took one final look at the two battlefields of the Undying Heavenly Emperor, then turned and crossed through space toward the Imperial Pass.
Time passed bit by bit.
Outside the Forbidden Ancient Road, in an isolated place similar to the Flying Immortal Battlefield,
within the Nirvana site once kept in reserve by the Undying Heavenly Emperor,
the flesh and blood belonging to Heavenly Venerable Xiaoyao had exploded inside the cave dwelling, and the array patterns drawn with it had long since dried up. On the stone platform, parts of the immortal egg's surface occasionally bulged, creating a horrifying sight.
Rumble... rumble...
Within the Immortal Platform of the remnant body, the Undying Heavenly Emperor and Heavenly Venerable Xiaoyao repeatedly clashed with Soul Dao techniques.
Until a certain moment, when the Female Emperor completely ground away that "substitute" and the Heavenly Emperor Mark, intercepting what remained,
the already incomplete primordial spirit of the