Kill the Chicken to Scare the Monkeys

The name Ling Yuan Realm was hardly unfamiliar to Gu Yuanqing.

Back then, Ten Directions Misty Rain Tower had once led the Shadow Cult in an assault on the Qian Yuan Realm, only to be slain by him in the end.

Later, before he attained the Yin-Yang Circulation Realm, he had traveled through the various worlds in pursuit of heavenly mysteries and had found a way to personally visit this world.

Later still, in his enmity with the Primordial Divine Sect, the Ling Yuan Realm became an unavoidable link.

The Ling Yuan Realm was a product of the calamity of the previous cosmic era. As the world once ranked second, it had ultimately fallen to the brink of destruction at any moment.

It was a world about to die. Only because its origin was so vast had it endured for more than a hundred thousand years within the Exquisite World, remaining among the Upper Thirty-Six Realms.

Yet now, it seemed it truly could no longer hold on.

Gu Yuanqing did not dare be entirely certain that what he had just seen really was the Ling Yuan Realm. After all, it had only been a blurry glimpse; perhaps it was merely another similar world.

But if it truly was the Ling Yuan Realm, then the matter was somewhat grave.

The present Ling Yuan Realm was still one of the hundred and eight Exquisite Worlds, and also one of the formation anchors of the Exquisite Realm Domain grand formation.

If it were to fall into the Demon Realm, what sort of impact would that have on the Exquisite World?

Perhaps the original realm-domain grand formation would shatter as a result. The seal of the God Ruins Boundary Abyss would bear the brunt of it, and beyond that, the entire Exquisite Grand Formation