Refining a World, First in the Heavenly Examination!

The Azure Nether Realm beneath their feet had completely collapsed into a vast black vortex. Countless mountains and rivers vanished into the merciless maw of the dark void.

At the heart of that destruction, the towering Ridge Vein Mountain God carried more than two thousand cultivators on his back, along with the survivors gathered along the way—over five thousand people in all. He followed the only golden road, shattering the void beneath each step as he climbed.

Nine thousand zhang!

Only the final thousand zhang remained between them and the gate to Great Zhou's world.

Yet just then, the Mountain God, who had been forging ahead like a spear through bamboo, abruptly stopped.

A piercing sound of rejection came from the void.

At the end of the Heavenly Ladder, the Boundary Gate to Great Wall Prefecture blazed with light. But for a hundred-zhang-tall body from another world, steeped in the ancient aura of the divine path, it was far too narrow—and far too hostile.

The laws of the living world were rejecting him on instinct.

The Great Zhou Immortal Dynasty would not admit the body of a wild god from another world.

"I can't get through..."

Seated at the core of the divine body, Chu Bai felt the resistance of those laws, solid as walls of bronze and iron, and understood.

Invincible in defense and astonishing in strength though this body was, it remained a relic of the Azure Nether Realm.

It was like a great ship built to sail one stretch of water. Now, at the mouth of the sea, it had run aground.

So be it. Useful as this body is, it's an external thing. The road has been laid. For this last stretch, everyone will have to rely on their own abilities.

Chu Bai was not one