Being conscripted this time had been within Qin Feng's expectations. When he had first entered the Immortal Domain, he had done so as a Supreme from the Primeval Ancient Realm.
Going to the Primeval Ancient Realm was extremely dangerous. A major reason he had left it back then was to avoid this great catastrophe.
At the end of the Immortal Ancient era, the armies of the Foreign Realm would invade and destroy the entire Primeval Ancient Realm. All Immortal Kings and experts at the True Immortal level or above would die in battle, without a single survivor.
Experts in the Supreme Realm would also be purged. As for ordinary living beings, there was no need to even mention them. The land would be scorched bare for billions of miles, and countless races would be slaughtered.
A mere Supreme like him could not withstand the iron hooves of the Foreign Realm's armies.
The great catastrophe awaiting the Immortal Domain was the Dark Turmoil that would erupt repeatedly in the later stages of the Chaotic Ancient era, when countless fallen Immortal Kings of darkness would attack the Immortal Domain.
In the early stages, the ordinary Immortal Kings of the Immortal Domain could still hold them off. That would give him at least several million years, perhaps even tens of millions, to cultivate and grow stronger.
In this world, only by reaching the Immortal King realm could he gain even a little ability to protect himself. Until then, he absolutely could not act recklessly.
Another very important reason he had resolved to leave the Primeval Ancient Realm was that he had no time to cultivate to the Immortal King realm-or even become an immortal.
After the Primeval Ancient Realm was shattered in the future, its immortal Dao laws would be incomplete. Even someone with Meng Tianzheng's talent would fail to become an immortal after millions of years.
Even though he had transmigrated early enough to have hundreds of thousands of years to prepare, Qin Feng still felt it was unsafe. Even if he became an Immortal King, the Foreign Realm's many Immortal Kings could surround him and kill him.
Entering the Immortal Domain was therefore almost his only choice.
After first reaching the Supreme Realm, Qin Feng had spent five hundred years in secluded cultivation. Once his realm was stable, he had headed to the border between the two realms.
During the Immortal Ancient era, the Immortal Domain's border connected to the Primeval Ancient Realm, allowing free travel between the two realms. It was easy for a Supreme to enter the Immortal Domain.
After becoming Supremes, many cultivators would venture into the Immortal Domain. Staying for tens of thousands or over a hundred thousand years was perfectly normal.
To everyone in the Primeval Ancient Realm, Qin Feng's decision to explore the Immortal Domain had been entirely ordinary. Besides, he had few friends in the Primeval Ancient Realm. No one had even come to see him off when he left; he had merely registered his name at the Immortal Domain's border.
Ten years passed quickly, almost in the blink of an eye. Qin Feng remained on this remote planet in the Immortal Domain, cultivating in seclusion, while his mind controlled his clone as it headed to the Immortal King Daoist Grounds.
This time, his clone would use his real name, returning as a Supreme who had been away from home for over a hundred thousand years.
A golden avenue instantly unfurled beneath his feet, extending straight into the depths of the universe. Wherever it passed, the void trembled and the stars moved aside.
When an Extreme Dao Supreme traveled, a golden avenue spanning starfields was the most basic display of grandeur.
Qin Feng took a step, and his figure vanished from the void outside Abyssal Depths Star.
That step carried him across several starfields. In just a few short days, he entered the celestial territory where the Heavenly Phoenix Immortal King resided.
According to the information Qin Feng had gathered, the Heavenly Phoenix Immortal King was a female Immortal King whose true form belonged to the Immortal Phoenix race.
The selection of Immortal King-level experts had already been completed a hundred years ago. Unfortunately, she had been selected, which was why she had issued a decree summoning the cultivators within her territory.
Now, a great world of breathtaking grandeur appeared before his eyes.
-The Phoenix Heaven World, the Heavenly Phoenix Immortal King's Daoist grounds and the sacred land of the Immortal Phoenix race. The Immortal Phoenixes were an extremely powerful race, with members in both the Primeval Ancient Realm and the Immortal Domain.
They also had all sorts of branches, forming an enormous family of phoenix birds.
They had produced countless prodigies, and even several Immortal Kings.
In the Primeval Ancient Realm, there was even one counted among the Ten Fiends. Though not an Immortal King, this being possessed an Immortal King-level body and combat strength, and had also mastered the True Phoenix Precious Technique.
The Phoenix Heaven World was not an ancient life-bearing planet or a continent in the ordinary sense, but a complete great world. It was said that the Heavenly Phoenix Immortal King had created it with her own Immortal King Dao fruit, and it spanned untold quadrillions of miles.
The entire great world floated in the cosmic void. Its sun was no ordinary star, but an enormous celestial body burning with eternal crimson-gold flames, radiating a terrifying aura that made the heart tremble.
Those flames were no ordinary fire, but the Phoenix race's innate true fire-the nirvana flame.
Rumor had it that this fire could burn all things to ashes, yet also bring members of the Phoenix race back from the dead.
Qin Feng could clearly sense that even with his cultivation as an Extreme Dao Supreme, touching a single wisp of nirvana flame would likely extinguish both his life and his Dao. The terror of an Immortal King-level expert was simply beyond the imagination of ordinary beings.
Qin Feng gathered his thoughts and stepped into the Phoenix Heaven World.
The moment he entered, dense spiritual energy rushed into his face, almost solid enough to touch. Every cloud in the sky was formed from condensed immortal energy. A single breath here would equal years of arduous cultivation for an ordinary mortal Dao cultivator.
The mountains, rivers, and earth were all crimson-gold. Ancient parasol trees towered everywhere, each radiating an ancient and sacred aura.
In the distance, an enormous city floated at the center of the Phoenix Heaven World. Its walls were built from some kind of crimson-gold immortal stone, with naturally formed patterns of phoenixes spreading their wings across the surface.
Above the city gate, three large, archaic characters radiated overwhelming pressure-Heavenly Phoenix City.
By now, several million people had gathered outside Heavenly Phoenix City. The weakest among them were at the Self-Severing realm, and there were also large numbers of Escape One cultivators. The rest were Supreme Realm cultivators, with at least ten thousand Supremes gathered here.
Qin Feng probed their auras. Only a dozen or so had entered the Extreme Dao domain. There were many Supremes in the Immortal Domain, but very few who truly entered the Extreme Dao domain.
High in the sky were several beings whose cultivation even Qin Feng could not see through. They radiated immortal Dao auras and were likely True Immortal-level experts.
The cultivators arriving from all directions stood in twos and threes on the plaza outside the city, their expressions varied. Yet the vast majority wore the same expression-
Reluctance. No one wanted to be here.
Supporting the Primeval Ancient Realm and risking their lives against the dark beings of the Foreign Realm meant nine chances of death for one chance of survival.
If they had any other choice, who would willingly come?
"Alas... I fear there's no escaping this calamity." Qin Feng had just landed on the plaza when he heard a gray-robed elder beside him sigh softly.
The elder was in the middle stage of the Supreme Realm. His face was aged and his eyes cloudy; one glance was enough to tell that he was an old relic who had lived for countless tens of thousands of years.
"Were you conscripted too, fellow Daoist?" Qin Feng asked casually.
The gray-robed elder nodded with a bitter smile. "I lived in seclusion in the Northern Glass Starfield for a million years. I thought I could spend my final years in peace, but who could have known that a decree from the Heavenly Phoenix Immortal King would arrive..."