Within the chaos, in an unknowable land of nothingness, the Undying Mountain drifted, manifesting at a wholly new point in spacetime at every moment.
Ever since the Netherworld Venerable and Taiyi had left and the Undying Mountain had concealed itself, this Heavenly Venerable's Daoist Grounds had remained this way. Without someone to guide them, outsiders had virtually no chance of finding it.
By a careful reckoning, nearly three hundred years had passed since the Undying Mountain concealed itself. Such a state might seem strange, but for the Undying Mountain, it had long been as commonplace as daily meals, nothing remarkable at all.
Today, however, some tremendous change occurred deep within the Undying Mountain.
An obscure yet vast fluctuation of the Great Dao condensed into being. Unseen, it influenced the entire expanse of chaos, while beyond the chaos, the myriad Daos of the universe faintly resonated with it.
On Enlightenment Cliff, He Mu sat upright beneath the Enlightenment Ancient Tea Tree, his bearing solemn and majestic. Like an emperor of Heaven, an eternal celestial sovereign, he possessed an indescribable grandeur.
Clearly, He Mu was the source of that vast and obscure fluctuation of the Great Dao. Now, he seemed to have become the absolute center of all heaven and earth. Though he resided in the Depths of Chaos, it was as though the universe and the myriad heavens revolved around him.
The next instant, golden light blazed around He Mu. Within the immortal light lay a sense of imperishability through myriad tribulations, beyond the erosion of time. Enveloped within it, He Mu seemed about to shed his mortal form and ascend as an immortal at any moment.
At the same time, with Enlightenment Cliff at their center, profound and archaic formation patterns lit up on every inch of land throughout the