"Dao Ancestor, the shattering of the Eternal Immortal Frontier exceeded so many people's imaginations. It was as though everything we had always held fast to had shattered."
"Mm."
"Someone used the remnants of the Heavenly Dao to lay a trap, overturning the Nine Heavenly Poles to crush our Eternal Antiquity."
Black Tortoise offered an account utterly different from Bai Li Zhong Hu's. "Someone told the Outer Domain's powerful cultivators that the foundations of heaven and earth, the Dao Foundation, originated in our Eternal Immortal Frontier. The Nine Provinces are not the center of heaven and earth. There are traitors in the Eternal Immortal Frontier who have long wished it would cease to exist."
"All right." Chen Xun nodded calmly.
Black Tortoise nodded heavily. He did not know why, but once he saw the Dao Ancestor return, everything seemed to fall into place. That man had always possessed a certain magnetism, steadfast and calm. Whatever towering winds and waves came their way, he could stand at the very front and withstand them.
They had no need to worry about anything, just as in ancient times. With him there, the Eternal Immortal Frontier stood as firm as a mighty mountain. Once, they had all overlooked this fact far too much. Only in that era had the significance of the Dao Ancestor's presence begun to grow without limit. No one could replace him.
For across the vast Eternal Immortal Frontier, truly no one could command an Immortal Venerable, much less a True Immortal. Yet a single word from him could send the Eternal Antiquity's True Immortals willingly off to mine, or to do anything at all.
"Black Tortoise, help me plant trees first," Chen Xun said evenly. "There is no need to worry about what comes afterward."
"Yes!"
Ten years later.
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