Chu Mo's eyelid twitched slightly. He looked at the three people, each wearing a different expression, and was momentarily speechless. Even Heavenly Pivot nearly failed to maintain his composure.
He had thought the other party was about to reveal some great secret, but this was it?
Wasn't it only natural that higher beings existed above the Seventh Realm? Fuli Cultivators knew about such things from the moment they began Qi Refining.
The people of this World Cluster probably don't even know the concept of a Heavenly Venerable. Is this the Kun Lord's handiwork?
Something stirred in Chu Mo's heart, but he put on a look of astonishment and said gravely, "Fellow Daoist Heaven, is that truly so? I would like to hear the details."
Seeing that he had taken the bait, Heaven's Sacred Venerable felt reassured and immediately began speaking with easy confidence:
"We three Sacred Venerables cultivate the Three Deities of Heaven, Yin, and Yang. Beneath the Abyss, we once glimpsed a sliver of opportunity: an Eighth Realm should exist in this world.
"Its power far surpasses that of a Sacred Venerable. If we can uncover the secrets of the Abyss, we may have a chance to take that step. Then we will truly be deities standing above all the heavens and myriad realms."
In truth, he had not told the truth. The opportunity to enter the Eighth Realm lay not in the Abyss, but in the World Ocean itself.
After years of research, he had already found a suitable method: project his own deity across the entire World Ocean and gather the symbols within it, thereby sublimating himself and transcending it.
But there was no need to tell the other party those secrets.
*The World Ocean has yet to reach its fullest development. The Abyss still needs to