Bang!
The door shut. The Primordial Immortal Lord patted his head, still unable to process what had just happened.
A million years in seclusion, and he had broken through!
The Primordial Immortal Lord, the undisputed overlord of the Ancient Sword Immortal Domain, felt his heart swell with ambition. It seemed as though heaven and earth lay within his grasp.
He had sat alone for a million years, enduring boundless solitude, and at last taken this crucial step!
As a Third-Step Immortal Lord, he stood at the pinnacle of this Immortal Domain. Even across the wider All Heavens, not just anyone could push him around!
The gulf between steps was vast indeed.
With a Substitute Death Immortal Talisman, a Third-Step Immortal Lord could not be instantly suppressed even by a Sixth Step Immortal Lord. He could self-destruct first, then escape through the Substitute Death Immortal Arts.
Only an overlord at the Seventh Step or above might suppress him outright, denying him even the chance to self-destruct.
A Second-Step Immortal Lord, on the other hand, needed no overlord to deal with him. A Sixth Step Immortal Lord could stop him from even killing himself.
That was why this step mattered so much!
Overlords were scarce. Those who existed were the ancestors of great powers, usually secluded as they pursued higher realms.
In other words, only upon reaching the Third Step did one have the confidence to leave an Immortal Domain and travel the wider All Heavens.
The Primordial Immortal Lord had emerged from seclusion with the bearing of a man who looked down upon the entire universe.
Yet when the stone door of his chamber opened, he found no excited descendants kneeling to welcome him, nor sect elders waiting respectfully outside.
There was only one person.
Dressed in a spotless white robe,