In the New Immortal Realm, at the Heavenly Dao Immortal Sect.
The Undying Nether King had gone mad. But he was only an avatar, with neither Origin nor Dao fruit.
In other words, killing him would not replenish the New Immortal Realm's vital essence or extend its Golden Age by tens of thousands of years.
He was of little use.
Smack!
The "Drunken Sword Immortal" drew on the Unbeatable Domain and slapped the Undying Nether King to death.
Crunch!
No cloud of blood burst forth. The Undying Nether King was flattened, turning into fragments of a strange metal.
The "Drunken Sword Immortal" casually reached out and gathered the fragments into his palm.
They were rare materials for forging an Immortal King's Artifact. At least he had gained something.
Meanwhile, beyond the ages of Space-Time, in a mysterious realm beyond description.
An immense, deathly silent square lay there.
Nine colossal stone statues stood around it.
But five had already shattered, their fragments scattered across the ground.
Only four remained intact. Their cold faces all pointed toward the center of the square, their eyes hollow.
A closer look revealed that every statue bore the very same face!
The face of the Undying Nether King!
At the exact center of the square, beneath the statues' gazes, stood five bronze coffins in a neat row.
The coffins were impossibly ancient, covered in incomprehensible, eerie runes and radiating an aura of ill omen and death.
Crack!
A sharp fracture broke the eternal silence.
A jagged crack suddenly split the brow of one of the four remaining statues!
Crack! Crack, crack!
Fractures spread across its entire body in an instant.
The next moment, the colossal statue collapsed. Huge stones struck the ground with dull booms, throwing dust into the air.
Six of the nine statues had