The Blood-Colored Plains!
They formed the border between Demon Province and Heaven Province, a boundless expanse of crimson earth that looked as though it had been dyed with blood. By a rough estimate, the region spanned more than eight hundred thousand li.
Xiao Tian's First Calabash Brother Body, Shi Hao, and Huo Ling'er had originally intended to visit Sin Province. Recently, however, Shi Hao and Huo Ling'er had heard about Hundred Rivers Returning to the Sea—the great competition of the Three Thousand Dao Provinces—which involved the Immortal Ancient Era, the previous era that had been brought to an end.
The end of an era meant that something momentous enough to shake the entire order of the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths had occurred. Only then could it mark the passing of an era.
The Immortal Ancient Era had ended when the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths were shattered, their once-unified whole broken into their present state, with even the connections between the nine heavens and ten earths nearly severed.
It was like a life-bearing planet in the universe shattering into nineteen pieces.
This was also the direct reason the Great Dao laws of the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths were less complete than those of the Foreign Realm. It made the emergence of immortals in this world almost impossible, and even reaching the Supreme realm was extremely difficult.
After Immortal Ancient, there had been Wang Changsheng and Meng Tianzheng. Apart from those two, no one else had truly become a Supreme to this day. The Supremes of the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths were all old fossils who had broken through toward the end of the Immortal Ancient Era.
Whenever the Foreign Realm attacked, those old fossils had to emerge from the self-sealing that let them cling to their dwindling