At this moment, the same bloody battles were unfolding beneath azure skies across every side.
Yet at last, a Dao Venerable's Dao heart had wavered on the battlefield. It was Ji Xiu, the Nine Tribulations Dao Venerable of the Azure Feather Illusion Clan.
Though his expression remained calm and composed, the soles of his feet were already drenched in cold sweat.
The Azure Feather Illusion Clan had been the clan least willing to enter this war, and the least willing to become enemies with the Five Elements Dao Ancestor. But the rolling tide of the world had surged upon them, forcing them here; they could not remain untouched.
The karmic entanglements tracing back through realms were far too immense.
The human race had always been pushed to the very front. The karma contained in a single Nine Heavens Immortal Alliance Token was already impossible to sever... even if he had wanted to stay out of this, it had been impossible. Nor had this matter ever been some Great Secret of Heaven and Earth; the upper echelons of the Immortal Dao were far too easy to reach.
Ji Xiu took a deep breath.
He gazed into the distance, where a colorless Essence Qi Flower stood eternal between Heaven and Earth. Five Elements Immortal Light suppressed Heaven and Earth, breaking all laws, while White Robed Chen Xun sat cross-legged atop that flower.
Chen Xun was likewise staring at Ji Xiu. His eyes penetrated eternity, as profound as Great Dao Immortal Mountains—beyond the Immortal Dao's ability to fathom, beyond time's ability to erode.
An ugly trace surfaced on Ji Xiu's face.
This was far too absurd...
He could naturally calculate the passage of time outside. It had only been a mere hundred years!
When Immortal Realm great powers fought, it began at a