[You felt a profound sense of helplessness and could not help asking, "Just what is a [Half-Immortal]? And how does one come into being?"]
[You had yet to untangle the [Dream Master]'s karma, and now a [Half-Immortal] had cropped up? How were you supposed to keep living like this?]
[Looking back, you had once considered [Nascent Soul True Lords] impossibly far beyond your reach. Now, you could crush them at will, one punch apiece (without even needing a punch, really).]
[Later, you had thought [Spirit Transformation Dao Masters] were the pinnacle, only for a [Half-Immortal] like the [Dream Master] to pop up.]
[You wailed inwardly, Could Heaven and Earth have a whole pile of [Half-Immortal] trump cards hidden away? If so, why even struggle? I might as well admit defeat!]
["There is no need to panic."]
[The [Lord of the Immortal Palace] saw through your anxiety and replied calmly,]
["For now, our opponent can only employ methods of this kind. Everything else is restricted by the rules and cannot take effect."]
[He paused, then cleared up your confusion:]
["[Half-Immortals] are different from [Spirit Transformation Dao Masters], [Nascent Soul True Lords], and their ilk.]
[In any given era, Heaven and Earth permit only one [Half-Immortal] to be born. Their birth is often accompanied by an immeasurable kalpa. They are anomalies nurtured by that calamity."]
[Startled, you asked tentatively:]
["This era is the Fourth Era. Does that mean three [Half-Immortals] were born before this?"]
[Chen Qingyan nodded without evasion, his voice low:]
["Naturally. The [Dream Master] of the third era, the [Thieving Immortal] of the second era, and that person from the first era..."]
[Hearing this, you could only feel that the waters of the [Supreme True Realm] ran terrifyingly deep.]
[At the same time, your suspicions about the identity of this