Fierce winds howled in rage, whistling all the way north.
The light of heaven rapidly dimmed. Layer upon layer of Death Qi surged forth like thick ink, shrouding heaven and earth in gloom. Even the Eternal Great Sun hanging high above the Immortal Realm had its radiance mercilessly devoured, unable to penetrate even a fraction.
Looking up, they could see a terrifying crack with no end in sight, embedded firmly in the continent's backbone like a savage scar left behind by a Primordial Demon God, running through the entire northern region of the Ancient Immortal Realm.
Faintly, several desolate and ancient beast roars drifted from the abyss's depths. The roars were hoarse as iron, carrying bizarre ripples of law that shook one's soul unsteadily and made one's scalp tingle.
This was the legendary Spirit-Severing Abyss, the final graveyard of countless living beings.
Clatter—
Amid that suffocating deathly silence, the sound of loose stones tumbling suddenly rang out beside a cliff at the abyss's edge.
Immediately afterward, three palms covered in black blotches and mangled flesh clutched desperately at the cliff edge. Accompanied by heavy panting, their owners crawled out from the abyss below in a miserable state, then collapsed heavily onto the gravelly ground.
The white-robed man in the center was none other than Jade Void Gate's First True Disciple—Lu Chen!
His Daoist robe was stained with blood, and his left arm had been severed at the shoulder. What churned from the wound was not bright-red blood, but dark green corpse poison. Even the Golden Immortal Law had been corroded until it was dim and lusterless, leaving him utterly unable to regenerate his severed arm.
The other two disciples were in even worse shape. Their eyes were deeply sunken, their bodies shriveled, and more than half of their inner