Every day, powerful cultivators from every race crossed the starry sky from all over the universe, flocking to Flying Immortal Star in hopes of witnessing eternal life.
Yet the vast majority could not even catch a glimpse of the Southern Heavenly Gate.
That ancient, sacred, endlessly mysterious supreme Immortal Gate, wreathed in immortal light, had long since concealed itself in the void.
Only those who had achieved alternative Dao attainment could perceive its existence and pass through the restrictions to reach it.
And at that moment-
Deep in an unknown part of the universe, amid a cold, dark, unknown stretch of starry sky.
Nine enormous black dragon corpses, their scales bristling, dragged the Bronze Giant Coffin through the starry sky on a journey whose destination no one knew.
Over the years, people had discovered the whereabouts of the Nine Dragons Pulling a Coffin, but by the time they tried to pursue it, it had already vanished into the depths of the starry sky again.
Its speed was astonishing; even a Path-to-Emperor at the ninth heaven of the Quasi-Emperor realm had failed to catch it.
Inside the ancient Bronze Giant Coffin.
A majestic, imposing figure sat cross-legged, radiating incomparable dignity.
Every inch of his body, every inch of his flesh and blood, shone like a supreme divine sun, sacred and inviolable.
Endlessly mysterious runes were inscribed upon him, interweaving and glittering there, faintly coursing with unparalleled, supreme power.
Every rune gleamed crystalline and brilliant, eternal and imperishable, gathering the grand momentum of heaven and earth, bearing the true meaning of the Great Dao's origin, and representing an inconceivable function and power.
Yet they differed from the Nine-Character Imperial Script within ancient scriptures such as the Dao Scripture, Taiyin Immortal Scripture, and Solar Immortal Scripture.
"Just trying to take the first step