The five-colored splendor of the five elements turned black, the purple of the lightning turned black, and the black and white energies of Yin-Yang grew deeper still. At that moment, the skies above the entire Shadow Immortal Realm were being stained by this black light.
It was not the black of destruction, but the black of gestation, the black of all things returning to one, the black of the source of the Defiant Dao.
Black light spread across the horizon, turning the sky of the Shadow Immortal Realm into a pitch-black curtain.
But countless points of light began appearing upon that curtain, each representing a Great Dao, densely packed and numbering in the tens of thousands.
Myriad Dao Stars glittered against the black curtain.
Immortal Ancient looked up at the sky, his pupils contracting violently. He saw something beginning to condense within that black curtain-a silhouette, a silhouette so vast it defied imagination, slowly taking shape.
It was an ox!
A phantom of a black ox began appearing Above the Heavens.
His four hooves rested upon the four corners of the Shadow Immortal Realm, one each in the east, west, south, and north. Every hoof was astonishingly large, blotting out the skies above thousands of immortal domains.
His body stretched across the sky directly above the Shadow Immortal Realm, his back like a mountain range extending endlessly from east to west.
His head pointed toward the center of the vortex.
His horns pierced the heavens.
Two enormous horns extended from the phantom's head, each hundreds of millions of miles thick, reaching upward and piercing higher layers of the void.
At their tips, the void shattered, exposing deeper layers of Space Turbulence. Even a hazy corner of the True Immortal Realm became visible. It was a forbidden region of Heaven and