Above the Three Thousand Worlds lay the Immortal Realm, and above the Immortal Realm lay Heaven Beyond Heaven, where the deities dwelled.
That was a height most immortals could never reach.
Some said cultivation never had an end. There was truth in those words, for even after ascending to become an immortal, struggles of a certain kind still existed.
Immortals had once been human, and humans could not rid themselves of certain deep-rooted failings.
Thus, many who naively believed becoming an immortal was the end of the road only realized after ascending that they had merely gone from the heights of one world to the very bottom of another. They still had to strive to climb higher.
Only when they truly became deities would their lifespans become genuinely endless.
Only then would they truly live as long as the heavens.
Deities did not casually travel through the Three Thousand Worlds, as doing so would disrupt the laws of those small worlds, but they could often visit the Immortal Realm to observe.
Heaven Beyond Heaven was rather desolate, which prompted the other six deities, apart from Shuang Jiu, to frequently disguise their identities and take a stroll around Heaven Beyond Heaven to ease the boredom and loneliness of passing time.
Recently, however, something had happened in Heaven Beyond Heaven, and no deity had appeared in the Immortal Realm for quite some time.
Even the assorted idlers living in the Outer Perimeter of Heaven Beyond Heaven, those who had supposedly ascended, no longer dared venture outside lightly...
For just a few days earlier, several massive explosions had erupted at the center of Heaven Beyond Heaven.
The upheaval in the innate origin qi could practically blast these idlers into rubble with ease.
Cultivation was no easy feat, and they had no desire