A long while passed.
He gave a soft sigh in the wind.
Behind him, the immortals from the various Spirit Manors exchanged bewildered looks. They could not perceive a True Immortal's karma, nor could they possibly know what had happened to bring a flicker of emotion to True Immortal Xuan Li's eyes.
Could the Eternal Immortal Frontier have...
The immortals dared not speculate further. What they could see and the vistas he beheld had never been the same; any wild guesses would surely miss the truth by heaven and earth.
"Fellow Daoists." True Immortal Xuan Li nodded lightly. "Forgive my intrusion."
With that said.
He seemed unwilling to linger. He vanished with the wind, leaving not the slightest trace in Heaven and Earth, mysterious beyond all mysteries.
Immortal Realm Calendar, year 330 million.
The Eternal Immortal Frontier Heavenly Secrets Dao Palace had borne down upon the Immortal Realm Great Dao for twenty million years. Just as Xuan Li had anticipated, throughout those vast twenty million years, no one in the world attained the Dao and became a True Immortal.
Yet, just as anticipated.
The Immortal Realm flourished. Countless newcomers rose without cease. From wilderness sects to the lineage branches of great organizations, countless branches of the Great Dao emerged.
Conflict in the Immortal Realm had never ceased. It had merely shifted from the great wars involving the Ten Thousand Clans of old to battles between powerhouses. Tribulation Transcendence Heavenly Lords and immortals of the first through fifth tribulations had always fallen in considerable numbers.
Only upon reaching the level of a Six Tribulation Immortal could one truly count as an "old bastard" of the Immortal Realm: an eyesore you could not kill, with so many avatars that no one could tell which was the Main Honored One.
Within the