On the Road to Immortality, after the Immortal Pass blocking their way collapsed, what met everyone's eyes was actually an ancient cave wreathed in chaos. Beyond it, only a stretch of nothingness remained.
Yet the Chaos Ancient Cave, the last shred of hope for the Heavenly Court's people, seemed to be nothing more than a dead end as well. Though chaos qi swirled around it, there were no spatial fluctuations at all, as though it were merely an ordinary cavern.
Among the Heavenly Court's Venerables, Longevity Heavenly Venerable and Annihilation Heavenly Venerable immediately looked extremely grim. Of all those present, Longevity could be considered the oldest. After years of decline following his self-severing, he harbored an immense longing to become an immortal.
As for Annihilation Heavenly Venerable, he was a failure who had once ventured onto the Road to Immortality and lost all his disciples in the attempt. His obsession with the Road to Immortality, and even the Immortal Domain, ran deeper still. It had almost become a demon haunting his heart.
Thus, upon seeing the Chaos Ancient Cave beyond the Immortal Road, the two were the most disappointed of all. Even their minds wavered, their defenses beginning to crumble.
Heavenly Venerables should never have had such flaws. But Longevity Heavenly Venerable and Annihilation Heavenly Venerable had, for various reasons, left weaknesses within themselves. Their hearts were incomplete, and so this situation arose.
It was at this very moment that a seed within their hearts began to sprout, grow, and flourish, entirely unnoticed even by themselves. Only Heavenly Venerable Yuanshi, standing to one side, inexplicably showed a trace of a smile at the corner of his mouth before it vanished. Even He Mu failed to notice it.
Apart from those two, the other Venerables of the Heavenly Court fared well