The Gathering of All Sides

"We're almost at Myriad Realms Mountain," Bai Lin reminded them. "It's easy to lose your way inside the mountain, even for a God King. Don't wander off. Just follow the passage straight ahead, and we'll reach the site of the competition."

Luo Feng and the others nodded.

This was Myriad Realms Venerable's domain. Even Supremes could lose their way here, let alone God Kings. None of them dared to wander off.

As they followed the passage up the mountain, Luo Feng's group sensed that space-time in the surrounding regions was either twisted or collapsing. Some areas had even formed hive realms. Anyone trapped in one would likely find it as hard to escape as the space-time inside the Haotian Mirror.

And this was only one corner of Myriad Realms Mountain. The rest of it was probably even more terrifying.

Strangely, the passage seemed to shrink space to an inch. Every step carried them an immense distance.

"What an incredible command of space."

Still marveling, Luo Feng's group followed the passage and soon reached the summit.

The summit of Myriad Realms Mountain was the site of the competition for places.

The summit was vast, as though a sword had sliced it flat. Most remarkable was the strange tree at its center. Its trunk was a hundred or so light-years thick, while its height reached tens of millions of light-years. Hanging from its branches were translucent, crystal-ball-like fruits in different colors, each roughly the size of a star.

The tree bore hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions, of fruits. Ten of them were much larger than the rest.

From a distance, it looked like a breathtaking work of art, dazzling with color and dreamlike beauty.

This was the Myriad Realms Tree, also named for the myriad realms.

Every fruit on its branches was