Heaven and Earth Calendar, 8.25 billion years.
The Myriad Heavens War had subsided.
The Heavenly Void had vanished, and the Ominous Race had disappeared. Heaven Sealing Earth Locking shrouded that shattered Immortal Realm, and no one dared venture there to investigate.
Yet an invisible pressure still lingered across the various Immortal Realms.
In a certain Immortal Realm.
A cultivator in the half-step True Immortal realm stood high above the clouds, looked toward the firmament, and cupped his hands:
"Master, this disciple has a question weighing on his heart."
"Speak."
An ethereal Dao voice, vast as the Boundless Expanse, resounded. A man with an immortal's bearing descended from the heavens. The pattern of law on his forehead blazed, as though he possessed the highest aptitude under heaven, wholly unlike the innate patterns of law of other cultivators.
Weighty, indestructible.
"May I ask, Master, what sort of existence is the Eternal Ancient Immortal Realm?"
His gaze burned like a torch as he lowered his eyes toward his master, for he knew this man had come from the Eternal Ancient Immortal Realm. This Immortal Realm itself had come into being because of him. He was its true sovereign of Heaven and Earth, and one of the principal combatants in the Myriad Heavens War.
Since the Ominous Race had descended to the lower realms, the Eternal Ancient Immortal Realm had ceased to be a forbidden topic.
At those words, the man's gaze deepened slightly, though he seemed unsurprised. He asked calmly, "Why do you ask?"
"Master, knowing that such a mountain stands ahead on the Immortal Path, I must either cross it or fall before it. That is why I ask."
The disciple drew a deep breath and said gravely, "Nor do I wish to see my homeland follow in that Immortal Realm's