Qing Chen sank his divine sense into the depths of the serpent-skin mark. The fluctuations of the recorded voice grew clearer, carrying the weathered weight of ten thousand years:
[If your resolve is weak, or you cling to life and fear death, there is still time to withdraw your divine sense before hearing what follows. Once you learn this secret, it will be as though karma has wound itself around you, almost impossible to escape, as though you have fallen into the hell of unending torment...]
A moment later, the voice continued:
[Since you have successfully formed your Nascent Soul, you should know that, in our cultivation, Foundation Establishment and Golden Core are merely the beginning. Only at Nascent Soul do we enter the hall, and only at Spirit Transformation may we be called supreme. Yet above Spirit Transformation lies Void Refinement, and even more beyond. Where, then, is the Immortal Path?]
[The Nanhua Realm of the Gouwu Sea is merely a ruined corner, its rules shattered and its inheritances broken and intermittent. The true great road to the heavens lies in vaster realms!]
[And the Moon-Worshipping Divine Cult, as you presumably know, is no mere local faith of the Gouwu Sea. Its roots lie in the Nanhua Realm's principal star-Frost Moon Stars.]
[Frost Moon Stars is the principal star of the Pan-Star Sea region within the Shiyuan Immortal Star Sea.]
[The Shiyuan Immortal Star Sea! That is the center where billions of realms across the heavens and countless immortal stars converge! The ultimate stage where boundless races, endless sects, and immeasurable numbers of cultivators contend!]
[Tens of thousands of years ago, the Moon-Worshipping Divine Cult encountered the "great darkness calamity," and the faith fractured. One major direct lineage brought part of its core inheritance into hiding on Immortal-Severing Island-the