Everything in the real world soon vanished from view.
What appeared before them was a realm of fathomless darkness.
Even the sense of time passing became blurred here.
Chen Xu, Lu Yu, and the other nine Immortal Emperors had circulated their immortal essence at once, yet...
"My law... has been suppressed?!"
"What... is this place?!"
They were Immortal Emperors, supreme beings who resonated with the Heavenly Dao and held complete mastery over a law.
Yet in this bizarre black space, they were like fish out of water, feeling suffocated in both their laws and their souls.
Just as Lu Yu and the others were about to try circulating their immortal essence again, Ancestor Si Ming, who had remained silent all this time, suddenly spoke:
"Don't waste your strength."
He stared into the void and swallowed. "This... isn't a place we can set foot in."
"Or rather, this isn't a world that 'living beings' should enter at all."
As the Immortal Emperors stood bewildered, a calm voice drifted over from a short distance ahead.
"The ancestor is right."
Si Chen stood quietly in the darkness. He alone remained entirely unaffected by the suppression of this space.
"This... is the Origin Realm, the reverse side of the world."
The Origin Realm? The reverse side of the world?
Si Chen ignored the discomposure of the Immortal Emperors behind him and simply turned his gaze toward the void ahead.
"It seems... the one behind all this has come out."
"Tap..."
"Tap..."
The faintest sound of footsteps drifted out from the deep darkness.
Under everyone's wary gaze, as though they faced a formidable enemy, a pair of feet clad in tall black boots stepped across the boundary of the darkness first.
Next came a tattered, utterly ruined robe, and long, pale fingers.
Finally, a handsome