His gaze slowly darkened.
Waves of time gradually flickered in his eyes.
"Ancestor..."
"Our descendants can no longer attain immortality. Our people are dwindling."
"The Heavenly Dao has blocked the Longevity Laws, and the Dao Ancestor has left them unchecked..."
"Ancestor, did our millions of years of cultivation earn us nothing but a Great Dream of a Thousand Autumns, an empty dream...? Now even our bloodline gifts have been erased by the Heavenly Dao..."
"The Heavenly Dao is no longer our Eternal Heavenly Dao. It has turned against the people of Eternal Antiquity!"
"Insolence!!"
Countless ages ago, he had flown into a rage, losing his composure for the first time.
Later.
The Heavenly Dao gradually fell silent and lifeless.
They thought the dawn they had awaited had finally arrived.
Yet.
The Dao Lord transformed himself into heaven, allowing everything to continue.
That very day, he personally suppressed the unrest within the Longevity Clan, even slaying True Immortals of his own clan. From then on, everything began to descend slowly into chaos.
But he still held fast.
He held fast to the rules the Dao Ancestor had left behind.
For when the Progenitor True Immortal Realm first opened, it was the Dao Ancestor who brought them back to the Five Elements Immortal Domain, and the Heavenly Secrets Dao Palace that took them in. He had long since grown tired of living and no longer cared about immortality. All he cared about was the Eternal Immortal Frontier as a whole; even the beings of his own race could scarcely stir his heart.
Indeed.
The ancient cultivators of the Eternal Immortal Frontier were all like this. It was the Dao heart shared by that generation. The younger generation could not comprehend what they had endured back then.
But the unforeseen variable... had