Suddenly.
The dazzling starry sky abruptly fell silent.
Lan Ji's pupils contracted sharply. His earlier fury seemed to have been feigned; his expression instantly turned ice-cold, taking on an unprecedented wariness, as though facing a formidable enemy.
He lowered his gaze, and even his immortal robes began to tremble ever so slightly.
Outside the Star Palace, its impassioned experts likewise fell silent in an instant, all looking in the same direction.
There, at the end of the river of stars.
Two figures were crossing the river of stars, step by step. Rather than moving themselves, they seemed to make all of heaven and earth move of its own accord, steadily closing the distance.
As endless meteors streaked behind them, faint, indescribable phenomena of heaven and earth flickered into being.
Nearby.
Lan Ji's followers felt that passing aura descend like heaven and earth pressing down overhead, its pressure so immense that they could barely remain standing.
One of them was an enormous immortal beast. His keen immortal eyes trembled incessantly, sweat poured down his face, and he involuntarily retreated tens of thousands of feet. "Wei Shanchen, Sheng Yi, something's wrong... b-be careful. Be very, very careful."
After speaking, his face actually twisted slightly.
Whoosh-
The immortal beast's face turned deathly pale, as though he had suddenly remembered something.
Wei Shanchen and Sheng Yi, both experts of the true immortal realm, watched with grave, unfathomable gazes, saying nothing.
"Wei Shanchen, why does the heaven and earth great dao drifting through this starry sky carry a sense of annihilation...?"
"That can only mean that far too many true immortals' great daos have fallen at their hands... this is innate dao trepidation."
"After hundreds of millions of years, I'd almost forgotten that such terrifying beings could exist between heaven and earth. I remember back