The moment his voice fell, the once-noisy Drunken Immortal Tower seemed to be sealed in ice.
The movements of the drinkers froze at the same time. Amid the deathly silence, only heavy breathing rose and fell faintly.
Even the unfathomable Gravekeeper now had his brows tightly knitted, silently digesting this heaven-shaking piece of news.
Everyone knew that the sinking of the Ancient Immortal Realm back then was inextricably linked not only to the internal strife among the major forces of the Heavenly Realm, but also to the Underworld's forceful intervention.
And the passage through which the Devil Race army crossed the border was precisely the illustrious Ancient Heavenly Road.
This thing had an extraordinary origin. It was a spacetime tunnel torn open by the emperors of the Nether River Crow and Void Cave Earth Devil clans joining hands to pierce through the Thirty-Six Heavens, ripping it out by sheer force.
After that heaven-shaking battle, the heavenly road had long since collapsed, its interior filled with endless spacetime shards that could easily cut all things apart.
Even more terrifying was that the destructive divine power of the Immortal King realm still lingered in the ruins. There had once been a devil king of the Underworld who tried to ascend to heaven, only to be exiled by spacetime in the end, forever lost amid the desolate ancient years.
Now, Jade Void Immortal Venerable had actually stepped into such a death zone. How could it not make one's heart tremble with fear?
"Utter nonsense!"
After a long while, a resonant voice of doubt broke the dead silence.
A young cultivator suddenly stood up and glared angrily at Half-Immortal Sai. "Stop making alarmist talk here! The Immortal Ancient Battlefield is about to open, and the Immortal Venerable is the honored leader of the