Meng Chuan and the others emerged from the Sun God Tree and entered the South Sea Purple Bamboo Forest before them.
They were visiting someone else's Daoist grounds. Charging in aboard the Sun God Tree would be improper.
The moment they stepped from the Uninhabited Zone into the Purple Bamboo Forest, Heaven and Earth transformed. Everything looked different.
The vast, chaotic Uninhabited Zone, where danger lurked on every side, vanished. Before them shone radiant Immortal Dao light amid surging chaos.
From outside, it looked like a Purple Bamboo Forest wreathed in mist. Once inside, they discovered it was a world unto itself.
Immortal mist drifted through every corner. Mountains and rivers gathered the finest wonders of Heaven and Earth, while immortal birds flew across a scene of utter peace.
The presence of the Immortal Dao pervaded the place, sacred and solemn.
"To think I'd come here again..." the Heavenly Desolate Halberd sighed, its voice heavy with complicated feelings.
"Once, Heavenly Prodigies came here to pay homage. True Immortals dwelled here, Immortal Kings lectured on the Dao, and the Ten Thousand Worlds looked up to it."
The Heavenly Desolate Halberd had lived through the Immortal Ancient Era at its height. No—not lived. It was a weapon.
Now memories came flooding back.
While the Heavenly Desolate Halberd reminisced, Meng Chuan and the others saw much themselves: a girl cradling a young Qilin, a juvenile Immortal Phoenix...
And a Young Supreme with three streams of Immortal Qi floating around him and a Divine Sword of Immortal Gold on his back.
Divine Mountains rose one after another. Treasure Medicines had grown for hundreds of thousands of years, their potency immense.
As Meng Chuan and the others looked around, the beings in the distance noticed them too.
When their gazes fell on the Heavenly Desolate