The gray, hazy passage into the Secret Realm closed completely behind them.
There was no sound, no tremor.
As though it had never appeared, it erased every trace of the outside world.
The light of the God Domain, the vast Divine Power, the aura of rules circulating through heaven and earth...
All were sealed outside.
In an instant, the entire world sank into utter silence and absolute cold.
It was as though time had stopped and all things had frozen.
The six stood in the barren outermost reaches of the Life Secret Realm.
Beneath their feet lay Gray Divine Soil, unchanged since time immemorial, hard and deathly still, yet brimming with vitality.
Billions of layers of spatial barriers overlapped around them, frozen solid.
The Eternal Divine Prohibition shrouded the entire forbidden zone.
It sealed fluctuations of Divine Power, severed the circulation of rules, and prevented Spatial Teleportation.
Here, even a god's Divine Power flowed with immense difficulty.
Every use of power had to withstand the suppression of the entire space.
After briefly surveying their silent, barren surroundings, Shiheng slowly raised his hand.
He stopped the others from instinctively stepping forward together.
His expression was solemn and grave as he settled everyone's roles before they entered the depths of the Secret Realm.
"The dangers of this journey into the depths of the Secret Realm far exceed your imagination."
Shiheng slowly swept his gaze over the five before him, his voice calm yet carrying absolute reason and authority.
"The entire realm is suppressed by the Eternal Divine Prohibition."
"And at the very heart of this forbidden land sleeps an ancient, terrifying being suspected to be at the Paragon level."
"Power at that level transcends every limit beneath an Overgod."
"The slightest disturbance could kill all five of you. Here, there are no