The Immortal Emperor stepped resolutely into the Heavenly Gate, forsaking everything in the mortal world and abandoning the Dao Fruit of his past, all to return home.
Everything he had done in the Human World-slaughtering emperors, unleashing turmoil, becoming the greatest hidden mastermind of all time-had been for the chance to return to the Immortal Realm one day.
Now that the Immortal Gate stood wide open, what was there left in the mortal world worth lingering over?
Alone in a foreign land, a stranger far from home, one missed one's kin all the more whenever a festival came. His hatred for Emperor Zun, the faith of the myriad races, the achievements of his former dynasty, the betrayal of his wife and son-none could outweigh his longing for home.
He sought an immortal station and eternal life to return home, rather than braving the Immortal Path for an immortal station and eternal life.
From beginning to end, the Immortal Emperor had remembered what he wanted. His will had a single purpose, his Dao Heart unwavering.
At the end of the Immortal Path stood a vast Heavenly Gate. The battling emperors had blasted it open long ago, revealing a boundless, unfathomable world suffused with immortal energy.
Laws interwove before the Heavenly Gate. These were the Dao of the Immortal Realm, utterly different from those of the mortal world.
The Immortal Emperor did not advance rashly. Instead, he took a five-colored immortal egg from within his robes. It was the Heavenly Emperor's Second Son, whom he had always carried with him and protected.
The Immortal Phoenix egg leaped into the Heavenly Gate with effortless ease, meeting no obstruction.
The Immortal Emperor, however, became stuck midway. Runes of the immortal Dao flickered as the order of the other realm sought to supplant his own,