A Greater Realm that had once stood in glory had fallen just like that.
It had left no trace behind!
Deathly silence spread without end. Every law was gone, every Great Dao had vanished, and the realm had become forbidden ground that even Kings could not enter.
For a King who stepped into that realm would lose his connection to his Throne and fall from the King Realm.
And anyone below the King Realm could not withstand that deathly stillness.
Only someone as unusual as Su Bai, who was not an Immortal King yet surpassed them, could remain there.
If—and this was only an if—
if this realm opened again in the future and civilization was born anew,
would the people of that new civilization believe theirs was the first?
The beginning of everything?
Would it be like the Immortal Realm's Primordial Era?
In truth, "Primordial Era" was a name given by later generations.
That era had a true name: the Primordial Epoch!
Then, before the Primordial Epoch, had the Immortal Realm also been destroyed once, just like the Demon World?
Had it been wiped so utterly clean that every trace of what came before had disappeared, leaving not even a legend?
"Crane Princess..."
"Heavenly Demon King..."
Su Bai murmured, his gaze seeming to pierce the absolute void.
"Epoch's End is by no means the end."
"Is the Immortal Realm's end drawing near too...?"
He withdrew his hand and clasped it behind his back.
Deep in his eyes, the blazing will to fight and the light of discovery had not been extinguished by this destruction. Instead, they burned purer than ever.
There was no end to the Dao!
"First Immortal King, if you're still out there, I imagine you've long since traveled beyond the Myriad Realms to seek the truth