A million years passed, ten sublimations.
The life drain of all living beings had fallen into a halt.
On this day, chaos opened up, the Great Dao returned to one, and the final wisp of Chaos Qi between Heaven and Earth dissipated. The brand-new True Immortal Realm finally revealed its true appearance!
The heavens were too high to behold.
It was a vault of heaven that could not be described merely as vast.
A million-mile river of stars was but a speck of dust within it, while hundreds of millions of great stars were no more than flecks of light upon its dome.
Within the firmament, seven-colored immortal light intertwined. Countless Great Dao Laws turned into an eternal heavenly curtain that enveloped the sky. Dao patterns flowed across that curtain, outlining a magnificent Heavenly Map of the Great Dao!
The skies of the Immortal Realm were no longer a boundless, disorderly sea of clouds swaying in the wind.
Looking into the distance, one could not see the end of the firmament at all. Wherever the heavens extended, eternal Dao Principles filled every corner.
Raising one's head for another look, one could see layer upon layer of firmaments stacked atop one another, each higher and more distant than the last, each more mysterious than the one before.
There were ninety thousand layers of heaven, each evolving different Dao Principles, each containing different mysteries of Heaven and Earth.
The lowest layer of the firmament alone stood hundreds of millions of miles high, hidden within swirling clouds and mist.
Looking farther upward revealed layer upon layer of heavenly gates. Every layer stood trillions upon trillions of miles tall, their doors engraved with profound Dao patterns from the Heaven-Opening Era.
Higher still, no one knew how many layers of firmament there were. They seemed