This dark, world-ending catastrophe was terrifying beyond measure, with far-reaching consequences. Fortunately, the Heavenly Court had prepared in advance, using the Quasi-Emperor Pure Lands to evacuate some of the living beings and dispatching Supreme Beings in time to intercept the enemy, reducing the casualties to a minimum.
Most crucially, the Immortal Ascension Road had opened. Unlike the elusive Immortal Realm, the Strange World's existence had been confirmed by the Immortal Emperor and Great Emperor Wu Shi, and it contained substances that could extend one's life.
When the Heavenly Court's Supreme Beings abandoned their efforts to stop the Dark Supremes and headed toward the Strange World, this lent even greater weight to that claim.
"The Heavenly Court's people have entered that world too! Wu Shi wasn't lying. It's real!"
Whether it was the Immortal Matriarch, Thunder God, Emperor Zixiao, or the other Supreme Beings, they cast aside every worldly attachment at that moment and charged toward the Immortal Ascension Road together, no longer even bothering to harvest living beings as medicine.
Gathering life essence through Dark Turmoil was only useful before ultimate sublimation. It could slow the spread of cracks in a Supreme Being's immortal altar, allowing them to seal themselves away for another million years and await the opening of the Immortal Ascension Road.
Now that everyone had undergone ultimate sublimation, no amount of life essence would help. Even if they devoured every living being in the universe, they still could not escape their destined death.
Their only hope was to break into the Immortal Realm, into the Strange World.
"True longevity substance can prolong the lives of Imperial Dao experts!"
"I can sense its aura!"
"It's right ahead!"
Ancient Emperors roared one after another and stormed the Immortal Ascension Road, fighting desperately through blood.
Supreme Beings had never considered