Meanwhile,
The half-year gala was nearing its end.
Outside the Altar Domain, countless leaders of powers from the Myriad Heavens and Ten Thousand Domains, clan patriarchs, guardian experts, venerable elders, and mighty figures waited with eager anticipation.
Their gazes remained fixed on the Starlight Gala Altar ahead, reinforced by countless generations of experts from across the heavens.
They were waiting.
Waiting for their own prodigies, children, and heirs to be teleported out of the Core Secret Realm.
Half a year was neither long nor short.
For these old monsters who had lived at least several thousand years, half a year was merely the flick of a finger.
But for the prodigies who had entered the Core Secret Realm,
This half-year was a crucial opportunity that would determine the course of their future cultivation.
Whoever gained greater fortune within the secret realm, whoever went further while undergoing the Immortal Platform Tribulation,
Would seize the initiative in the great era to come and look down upon their peers!
Yet today, the atmosphere outside the Altar Domain differed somewhat from the anticipation that had marked the close of previous galas.
There was only one reason.
Earlier, the arrival of those three Restricted-Area Supreme Dao Bodies, and the sudden emergence of Yue Yuan, the previous generation's Great Accomplished Golden Body,
Had led to an earthshaking confrontation and clash that ultimately ended with both sides withdrawing.
But the altar reinforced by countless generations of experts from every race and domain, along with the gateway to the Core Region,
Had already been left teetering on the verge of collapse by the aftermath of that clash.
Now, dense cracks riddled the Dao patterns across the altar.
Crackle...
From time to time, tiny fragments of space peeled away from the gateway's edges, drifted into the void, and vanished