BOOM!!!!
A world-shaking roar erupted from deep beneath the Immortal Realm's boundless earth and from the high heavens of space-time and law!
The heavens collapsed!
The earth overturned!
The myriad domains of this Immortal Realm wailed as they broke apart!
Then the beings of the Immortal Realm witnessed a sight so horrifying they could never understand it, nor forget it for all eternity.
The Immortal Realm's Epoch Calamity was not like the Demon World's, where the sky split open to reveal a crimson demonic eye of destruction.
Instead...
The vast, boundless earth supporting the Immortal Realm, bearing countless blessed immortal mountains and the ancestral roots of Spirit Veins...
And the very foundation on which its countless beings depended for survival, silently... bulged upward!
No, it was not bulging!
Something of unimaginable size and unknowable origin was slowly, irresistibly... reaching out from beneath the Immortal Realm's foundation!
First came five enormous outlines stretching beyond sight.
They tore through the stable laws of the earth's veins, crushed every foundation, and kept rising.
At last, everyone saw what they were!
They were... the outlines of five fingers!
The spreading shadow of their joints alone tore the entire Immortal Realm apart!
Billions of immortal mountains silently crumbled to dust, while vast oceans surged backward and evaporated.
The once-whole, glorious Immortal Realm shattered into millions of fragments.
Then the rest of it finally appeared before every being in the Immortal Realm!
It was a left hand!
Each line on its palm seemed to record a river of Epochs and bury the splendor of countless civilizations.
It was not corporeal, yet it transcended all corporeal things.
It was the concept of Termination made manifest, the rule that cleansed Epochs, something beyond all existing understanding in the Immortal Realm...
The Hand of Heaven!
Yes, only the Hand