And yet.
Only then did Gui Hongdao notice that a swollen-faced strange beast was tethered in the place beyond the peak where immortal herbs grew in abundance. Its gaze held the calm acceptance of one who had seen through life and death. It looked at Gui Hongdao as well, but soon looked away.
A trace of melancholy gradually appeared in the strange beast's eyes.
It had once been the mount of a Cosmic Sea Immortal Ancestor, a being beneath one and above ten thousand in the Cosmic Sea. Then, on that day, it had merely passed through a certain region...
Yet for no apparent reason, it had been gored into severe injury by a Big Black Ox, and its wounds had yet to heal even now.
It had then been tethered outside the door.
Half a month later.
Rumble!
"Pay homage to the Immortal, Immortal..."
"Ah?!"
Bang...
Another sweating profusely, prostrate figure appeared outside the Immortal Hall.
"...Shang Qing?!"
"...Hong Yuan?!"
The two lowered their heads and addressed each other by their honorific titles in astonishment. They appeared to be old acquaintances.
Hong Yuan's expression shifted spectacularly before instantly becoming incomparably silent. Even an Immortal Ancestor... had been suppressed?!
He had originally intended to beseech the Immortal Ancestor to purge the disasters of the Cosmic Sea, but he had never expected to deliver himself right to their doorstep. It seemed this place was the nest of the "disasters."
Hong Yuan's heart instantly sank to the bottom of the sea, gradually eroded by an unimaginable despair.
The Immortal Ancestor's expression was profound, yet he remained calm and composed.
Later, something strange happened.
Peerless Immortals from the Cosmic Sea kept arriving, including no shortage of Supreme beings. Thus, the dumbfounded bang bang sounds outside the Immortal Hall grew ever more frequent,