And this figure's vast aura belonged to none other than a True Immortal!
Boundless immortal light suddenly bloomed in the dark, desolate void, and a man stepped out of its radiance.
His towering form seemed cast from twelve zhang of crystalline immortal gold. Nine-colored splendor flowed ceaselessly around him, and hundreds of millions of immortal glyphs wandered through his body like stars. With each breath, he exhaled sky-filling immortal radiance, staining all the darkness into a dazzling Immortal Domain.
The man's brows resembled distant mountains, and his eyes were two clear pools holding blazing suns. Deep within his pupils, a Twelve-Petaled Golden Lotus slowly opened and closed, each movement of its petals evoking the first unfolding of chaos. At a glance, his face bore an otherworldly immortal grace so lofty that it bordered on icy.
He was the Bo Clan's True Immortal, Bo Dengyun!
Back then, he had abandoned everything in the Immortal Realm, even the karma of immortality sheltered by the Immortal Realm Heaven and Earth. He had staged and directed a grand drama across heaven and earth, sacrificing that generation of the Bo Clan as well as that generation of True Immortals.
The path of the True Immortal Realm had been wrong from the very beginning.
Yet they had chosen to seize territory, continuing down that mistaken path until all the seats of the Venerable of Ten Thousand Daos were filled.
Bo Dengyun, however, had chosen to fake his death and flee.
He could not change the broader circumstances of the collapsing Immortal Realm Rules, nor could he unite the will of all living beings in the Immortal Realm. He also believed himself too weak to seize the territory of Eternal Antiquity. Everything seemed to be heading toward a hopeless end.
But from the very beginning, he had