The white earth lay hidden in the endless Black Abyss, where there was neither wind nor rain nor feeling. Only a Nine-Tier Altar that none but the greatest of the age deserved to tread stood before the mountain-like Central Land Qilin.
The Qilin and the sacrificial platform, one tall and one low, one vast and one small, looked like a divine beast reaching into the heavens gazing down at a palm-sized mound of dirt.
Yet that little mound truly was the highest point ordinary mortals could reach.
Any higher, and they became immortals!
Shang Lianbi followed beside Mo Hunsheng, slowly drifting across the deathly white earth. It felt as though he had passed through wilderness and the mortal world and finally reached the end of the Great Dao.
As the overlord of Dragonbone Shoal, Shang Lianbi had actually seen the world-suppressing divine pillar in the East and knew there was something similar at the center of Heaven and Earth. He asked, "What is this place?"
"The Core of Heaven and Earth. Ahead is the Ascension Platform. Someone in the Seventh Realm holding the Human Emperor's Cauldron can hold up this world for an instant and thereby ascend beyond it."
Shang Lianbi nodded slightly, surveying the boundless Black Abyss with some puzzlement. "Where do you get out?"
Mo Hunsheng showed no impatience. He gestured toward the Heaven-Piercing Qilin and explained earnestly, "Normally, divine light appears in the Qilin's eyes, and a rift opens before the altar. Once you pass through, it closes.
"But the last time I came here, I damaged the foundations of Heaven and Earth, causing a crack in the world. The opening remained. Ye Ci failed to repair it and ultimately had no choice but to plug the breach with the Human Emperor's Cauldron-"
Shang Lianbi was astonished.