Immortal Realm Calendar, year 140,000.
Those Innate Dao Embryos who had once been nurtured within Primordial Chaos Purple Qi were entering the long sleep of extinction with the posture of Heaven and Earth mourning alongside them.
When the markings between their brows split open by three inches, Great Dao Golden Lotuses withered into stone. The dust shaken from their sleeves fell into the sea of clouds, turning into Barren Mountain Ranges stretching a hundred thousand zhang.
Some Sword Cultivators in seclusion discovered that the "Undying" Dao markings engraved upon their life-bound swords had silently crumbled beneath the starry night. Wherever the fragments drifted, the plants and trees across a thousand li instantly endured a hundred lifetimes of flourishing and decay.
Ancient Black Tortoises bearing steles halted in their tracks. The River Diagram Immortal Markings on their shells were reversing into Chaos Trigrams—this was the final chapter of lifeforms that even those who deduced the Heavenly Secrets had never foreseen.
Upon Asking the Dao Cliff above the Ninth Heavens, the jade-green prayer mats upon which the first-generation lifeforms had sat in meditation and perished while discussing the Dao ignited without fire. From the ashes rose nine incomplete Great Dao Immortal Markings.
An old ancestor who used stars as chess pieces suddenly felt a stabbing pain in his fingertips. Looking down, he saw the galaxy flowing through his palm lines pouring backward into the vault of heaven.
Watching the Innate Primordial Qi at the eyes of the Yin Yang Fish gradually dim, they finally comprehended the most merciless truth of Heaven and Earth: the end of eternal life and long sight was merely returning the two words "eternity" to the River of Time.
At this moment, the immortal qi between Heaven and Earth seemed to carry the sigh of old age. As