A thousand years ago.
The Great World of Ten Thousand Immortals.
After Chu Mu was utterly destroyed, the dust finally settled.
Li Yang's will, along with that enormous nascent soul, fell from beyond the Domain's Vault and gradually dissipated.
Li Yang had fallen.
He had died in the truest sense, with no means of resurrection left.
That single sword strike had burned away
everything he had, including his own life.
But he died without regret.
For when he slew Chu Mu, the overwhelming rush of satisfaction had nearly swallowed his will whole.
Falling into the Great World of Ten Thousand Immortals alongside him was his Vast Heaven World.
Once the Vast Heaven World lost its master, Brilliant Dawn emerged from within, its body a hundred times smaller than before.
"I am free. This is exactly what I wanted, yet I must remain trapped in this Domain for untold ages.
Even if I escape one day, how can I rise in the Upper Realm and save my kin?
Master-I've lost this enormous gamble. In the end, you never became an Immortal Emperor."
Now less than ten thousand zhang long, Brilliant Dawn wandered aimlessly through the Great World of Ten Thousand Immortals, the Vast Heaven World suspended above its dragon horns.
It hoped to find some unclaimed Inheritance Grounds and sustain itself by devouring the immortal veins within.
The days slipped by. Following fluctuations in the immortal source power between heaven and earth, Brilliant Dawn visited one Inheritance Grounds after another.
Only a handful of Inheritance Grounds still held immortal veins. It battered their restrictive seals with its vast immortal source power, then devoured the immortal veins left behind.
After an unknown length of time, it arrived on the Blazing Continent.
It could sense an unclaimed inheritance deep within this place.
But