Meng Chuan's figure had vanished, but no one left. They were still gazing out over the Boundary Sea.
A murky haze stretched before them, like a vast maw of darkness that swallowed everything.
A Quasi-Immortal Emperor had departed just like that, leaving the Immortal Domain to quell the Dark Source.
"So only a Quasi-Immortal Emperor can leave footprints on the Dam?"
An Immortal King looked at the footprints Meng Chuan had left, understanding dawning in his eyes.
Another trail ran alongside Meng Chuan's footprints. It had been there for countless years, and no one knew where it came from.
Yet Great Powers across the worlds had long paid attention to it.
In truth, that trail of footprints was one reason so many believed the Boundary Sea held an opportunity to become an Emperor.
Countless Immortal Kings had tried everything and failed to leave a mark on the Dam, yet that trail of footprints endured.
It could not be erased. It would not disappear.
From the day the Kings discovered it, some had believed an Emperor might have left it.
If an Emperor had entered the Boundary Sea, something there must have drawn him.
And so it had spurred generation after generation to venture into the Boundary Sea in search of opportunity.
Only after Meng Chuan walked across the Dam could the Immortal Domain Kings be certain of one thing.
That ancient trail of footprints had indeed been left by a Quasi-Immortal Emperor.
But that certainty sent a chill through the Immortal Domain Kings.
"Did the owner of those footprints enter the Boundary Sea for the same reason as Emperor Yuan?" an Immortal King murmured.
If his purpose had been the same as Emperor Yuan's, then why had he never appeared again?
"The owner of those footprints went to the end