At the very moment that radiant light blazed across Vermilion Bird Avenue in Capital City, drawing the eyes of ten thousand sects, somewhere unimaginably far beyond the Nanhua Realm...
The Shiyuan Immortal Star Sea.
It was a truly boundless expanse of stars and realms.
If the territories spanning tens of millions or hundreds of millions of miles within the Nanhua Realm were already enough to keep a Golden Core True Person from crossing them in a lifetime, then here, those so-called realms were as insignificant as floating dust.
Scattered primary stars hung in the distant darkness, some scarlet as burning blood, some white as cold jade, some casting azure light for hundreds of millions of miles, and some wreathed in endless thunderclouds and storms;
Beyond the stars circled countless shattered landmasses, lesser thousand worlds, middle thousand worlds, and remnants of great thousand worlds, like grains of sand swept along by a great river, rising and falling amid starlight and void storms.
There was no intact canopy of sky here as there was in the Nanhua Realm.
Overhead lay infinite starlight, nebulae stretching across hundreds of trillions of miles, and void tides winding like dragons and serpents.
Occasionally, enormous dark shapes could be seen swimming slowly through the distant depths of the Star Sea, resembling whales yet not whales, dragons yet not dragons. Their bodies spanned unknown hundreds of thousands or even millions of miles, and vast swathes of stardust were drawn into their bellies with every breath.
In a place like this, ordinary Nascent Soul True Lords and Golden Core True Persons faced nine chances of death and one of survival. Even the supreme True Lords on the Heavenly Gang True Lord Ranking could barely be considered capable of protecting themselves.
Only Spirit Transformation Venerables were qualified to truly cross