Chapter 1299: Immortal Descends, All Things Return to Void

My Longevity Simulation

Ever since the Immortal Path was severed, no one knew how many years it had been since immortal spiritual qi had appeared upon the lands of Xuanhuang.

Yet at this moment, these sacred wisps of aura, rising from the earth and climbing upward, seemed to bring no benefit at all to the Xuanhuang Realm.

Instead, they brought a horrifying disaster comparable to extinction.

The greed of cultivators was a hundred times more frenzied than when faced with the Spirit of Heaven and Earth. Even if they had to abandon everything around them, they would still chase after it and seize it. Anyone who dared stand in their way became an enemy worthy of death. Whether Great Qi soldiers or Ten Thousand Immortal Alliance cultivators, identity and status no longer mattered, nor did cultivation realm.

The battle between the Holy Dynasty Great Qi and the Ten Thousand Immortal Alliance instantly transformed into chaotic slaughter among all cultivators the moment the immortal spiritual qi was released.

With every breath, thousands of cultivators perished.

Because of the unceasing strange phenomena appearing one after another, the sky became layered with thick stretches of bizarre clouds.

Not even the terrifying presence brought by the personal arrival of the Immortal Ancestor could disperse them.

In the entire Xuanhuang Realm, only two armies could barely remain lucid amid this apocalyptic scene.

The other was the Qingxuan Army that guarded the Chizha Abyss.

Their common trait was that they had all cultivated the Xuanhuang Immortal Heart Mantra.

The Great Qi Imperial Guard had received direct transmission from the Holy Emperor.

The Qingxuan Army had been taught by the Holy Embryo before departing the Xuanhuang Realm.

As some of the few fortunate survivors, as they witnessed this tragedy unfolding in the Xuanhuang Realm, their faces turned pale and their bodies trembled. Though the Immortal Heart Mantra operated automatically to preserve their sanity, the instinctive fear in their hearts could not be erased.

It was not only cultivators.

Birds, beasts, grasses, flowers, even mountains, rivers, and the land itself, everything in the Xuanhuang Realm gradually lost control because of the appearance of immortal spiritual qi.

Beasts behaved like humans, risking life without hesitation in pursuit of immortal spiritual qi. Either they obtained it and exploded to death, or they died in savage struggle.

Plants could not actively pursue it, but some fortunate ones had immortal spiritual qi descend upon them from heaven without effort. Compared to other living beings in the world, although the overwhelming majority of plants also turned to dust in an instant after obtaining immortal spiritual qi, some still survived the cleansing of that vast power.

One might have thought this would create an immortal plant within the Xuanhuang Realm.

Yet before long, crazed cultivators followed the scent and arrived.

Although the transformed immortal plants completed their metamorphosis in a short time and gained defensive power, they still could not withstand the fearless assaults of cultivators. Before long, they were torn apart and devoured.

Then those lucky enough to seize and consume the immortal plants also had their flesh explode and their ashes scattered shortly afterward.

Only this time, thanks to the filtering effect of the immortal plants, they were able to enjoy the wondrous sensation of immortal spiritual qi for a little longer.

Then they perished amid intoxication and enlightenment.

If there was truly anything in the entire Xuanhuang heaven and earth that could genuinely benefit from the uncontrolled spread of immortal spiritual qi...

Then it was only the Xuanhuang world itself.

Like parched land finally nourished by rain descending from heaven.

The Xuanhuang Realm became enveloped in a dreamlike haze.

The earth roared, mountain ranges leapt, plains stretched outward. Transformations that would normally take millions of years now occurred in the blink of an eye.

The heavens, which had previously sunk somewhat while supporting the Holy Emperor of Great Qi, now slowly recovered their former posture and even became loftier.

The Xuanhuang Realm was visibly growing.

Amid strange rhythms, the white mist barriers that originally served as the borders between prefectures gradually dimmed under the immense pressure caused by the Xuanhuang Realm's spontaneous expansion.

Many barrier structures even directly dissipated with thunderous explosions, their power becoming nourishment and merging into the Xuanhuang world.

The strengthening effect brought by the Xuanhuang Realm's growth was astonishing.

Even the strange phenomena accumulating in the sky from the deaths of excessive numbers of cultivators were rapidly being digested.

...

Faced with this unprecedented transformation in Xuanhuang history, the three factions that arrived one after another from beyond the starry sky reacted differently.

The Holy Emperor was momentarily stunned amid the upheaval.

In his perception, the bond he had formed with the Xuanhuang world through all his previous actions became increasingly faint as the Xuanhuang world grew larger. It felt like a childhood close friend gradually becoming distant as both parties matured.

Though he felt a sense of loss, the Holy Emperor quickly recovered. Looking at the Great Qi soldiers still ceaselessly slaughtering one another across heaven and earth, he moved his thoughts and directly transmitted the Xuanhuang Immortal Heart Mantra to all of them.

Though among the maddened cultivators, very few could calm themselves enough to cultivate, saving even one was worthwhile.

The Immortal Ancestor, however, wore a complicated expression as he watched this upheaval.

No one knew what he was thinking.

But the only thing he did was keep a tight watch over the restless Xuan Immortal Ark beside him.

Voices came from aboard the Xuan Immortal Ark.

"What a waste, what a waste! Immortal spiritual qi is exceedingly rare even in the star sea! How can it be squandered by these mortals!"

"If this old man could obtain even a single strand, perhaps I could fully unleash the power of True Immortal seal script..."

"Immortal Ancestor! Step aside! Let our Xuan Immortal Ark gather some immortal spiritual qi, and all past grudges can be wiped clean!"

Gan Jingda barely managed to suppress the excitement in his heart as he spoke in a deep voice.

The Immortal Ancestor stood tall beneath his high crown, unmoving as a mountain.

"Your Xuan Immortal Ark..."

"Will stay right here and honestly watch."

"You are going nowhere."

Gan Jingda let out a cold snort, unable to suppress his anger.

"What arrogance! If you continue obstructing us, then do not blame our Xuan Immortal Ark for abandoning courtesy!"

"Though the Xuanhuang Realm may indeed be the last pure land in this stretch of star sea... compared to that, immortal spiritual qi is far more important!"

"Exactly! Jingda, stop wasting words with this old thing! That is immortal spiritual qi! If we can gain control of enough of it, perhaps we can use it to cross the High Wall! Why would we need to remain trapped in this Darkest Star Sea!"

Listening to the market-like clamor from the Xuan Immortal Ark, the Immortal Ancestor's expression remained unchanged, though a trace of mockery flashed through his eyes.

Hidden beneath the roaring of heaven and earth, faint footsteps quietly sounded behind the Xuan Immortal Ark.

Without warning, a shadow attached itself to the Xuan Immortal Ark.

An instant later...

The entire immortal ark vanished from existence.

As if it had never come to the Xuanhuang Realm at all.

The footsteps gradually faded into the distance, leaving behind only a faint deathly aura like frost.

Seeing this scene, the Holy Emperor's pupils contracted sharply.

"What was that?!"

The shadow came and went with incredible speed.

Not only had the Xuan Immortal Ark been caught completely off guard, even the Holy Emperor had failed to see clearly.

He could only vaguely sense the overwhelmingly dense death aura surrounding that figure, almost solid in form.

The Holy Emperor could not help but look toward the Immortal Ancestor.

Clearly, the Immortal Ancestor had long anticipated the appearance of that shadow. Perhaps the shadow's attack on the Xuan Immortal Ark had even been directed by him.

"I am not capable enough to make that thing obediently listen to me. I merely gave it a small hint."

"It is perfectly suited to dealing with those people aboard the Xuan Immortal Ark."

The Immortal Ancestor's gaze remained fixed on the transformation occurring in the Xuanhuang Realm.

He showed little concern for the mysterious shadow or the Xuan Immortal Ark.

Knowing that the Immortal Ancestor would not explain anything to him, the Holy Emperor did not press further, and instead looked down upon the world from the same perspective.

The drastic transformation of the Xuanhuang Realm was still continuing.

If the overall power of the Xuanhuang Realm before the spread of immortal spiritual qi had been "1".

Then in this short span of less than half a day, the overall power of the Xuanhuang Realm had already expanded to nearly "19".

This was not purely due to the mysterious nature of immortal spiritual qi itself, but rather because it acted as a catalyst, allowing the Xuanhuang Realm to truly absorb and fuse the origin power of those foreign worlds.

If before, it had merely been a crude stitching together of flesh.

Then what the Xuanhuang Realm was doing now was akin to a cultivator absorbing the spiritual qi within spirit stones and converting it into their own use.

The efficiency had increased by an unknown number of times.

And even...

The residual world power that had originally remained hidden deep within those foreign worlds, concealed and dormant, was now being uncovered by the Xuanhuang Realm under the stimulation of immortal spiritual qi.

Becoming nourishment for the Xuanhuang Realm.

"Hehehehe..."

"So that is how it is."

Sensing that presence outside the starry sky growing increasingly rapid, the Immortal Ancestor suddenly let out a relieved laugh.

The smile abruptly vanished.

The expression of the Dharma-Transmitting Immortal Ancestor suddenly changed as he looked toward the Holy Emperor.

"Come, let us continue fighting!"

Expressionless, he instantly unleashed another move, Something In the Palm, striking toward the Holy Emperor.

Without the support of the Xuanhuang Realm's power, it was insufficient to activate Eternal Xuanhuang Realm. But having broken this move before, golden source power essence transformed into towering giant pillars that rose from the earth.

They firmly held back the descending giant palm of the Immortal Ancestor.

At the moment of collision, the Holy Emperor noticed that the Immortal Ancestor did not seem to be using his full strength.

The power of this Something In the Palm was completely incomparable to the one previously used in the starry sky.

And the Holy Emperor saw even more clearly that after trapping him, the Immortal Ancestor immediately attempted to leave.

It seemed he was urgently trying to find something, to stop the drastic transformation of the Xuanhuang Realm.

The Holy Emperor instantly understood something.

Though it was somewhat difficult to believe, he still erupted with full strength and broke free from the giant palm of the Immortal Ancestor.

"The Holy Heart endures forever."

"The Holy Favor endures eternally!"

The Holy Emperor chanted loudly, and in an instant, a beam of radiance shone down from the Great Qi small world.

This was the source power essence stored within the Holy Heart Halls throughout Great Qi.

It was one of the Holy Emperor's final trump cards.

Once exhausted, the combat strength he could wield would be greatly reduced. Yet at this moment, the Holy Emperor showed not the slightest hesitation.

Under the diffusion and stimulation of immortal spiritual qi, the fusion of worlds led by the Xuanhuang Realm was ongoing.

Events were developing in a direction favorable to the Xuanhuang Realm.

"As long as I can hold back the Immortal Ancestor..."

"My mission will be considered complete."

"Though the path has been somewhat winding."

The Holy Emperor thought this to himself, then once again engaged the Immortal Ancestor in battle.

Neither of them wished to destroy the Xuanhuang Realm, so both restrained their power.

And the Xuanhuang Realm, after its fusion and transformation, had greatly increased its tolerance for fluctuations.

For a time, the battle between the Immortal Ancestor and the Holy Emperor once again fell into a stalemate.

...

Xuanhuang land.

Countless cultivators were still slaughtering one another over the struggle for immortal spiritual qi.

Tongyan Prefecture.

For some unknown reason, the immortal spiritual qi gathered here seemed somewhat greater than in other prefectures.

Thus, the slaughter here was the fiercest.

Another intense struggle ended, once again, with a Soul Transformation cultivator turning into flying ash in complete satisfaction.

Because too many cultivators had already died, the competition was no longer as intense as before.

A rare lull appeared in the fighting.

Before the next cultivators arrived, a small golden figure quietly appeared.

Looking at that strand of immortal spiritual qi ahead, greed flashed in the golden figure's eyes.

But this greed seemed different from the meaning shown by the Xuanhuang Realm cultivators.

Just as the small figure was about to act, he suddenly sensed something and turned to look behind him.

He saw a dark-faced cultivator with a scruffy beard, looking somewhat wretched, attempting to approach.

He even held a net in his hand, apparently intending to capture both him and the immortal spiritual qi together.

Having been discovered, the dark-faced man quickly put away the net and burst into loud laughter.

"Courting death..." A trace of killing intent flashed through the golden figure's eyes.

The cultivation of this person before him was truly too weak. He could kill him with a single slap. Yet he actually dared to scheme against him...

Just as he was about to act, a sense of crisis suddenly arose in his heart.

He acted with absolute decisiveness, abandoning the immortal spiritual qi that was almost within his grasp, and instantly transformed into an escaping beam of light and fled.

Watching the small golden figure vanish from sight in the blink of an eye, Jiao Xiuyuan slapped his thigh fiercely in frustration.

"Damn it, I tracked him for so long, and he still got away!"

His expression shifted repeatedly, but in the end, Jiao Xiuyuan chose not to continue pursuing the small golden figure.

Instead, he solemnly looked toward the strand of immortal spiritual qi in the distance that was about to dissipate into heaven and earth.

Toward this peerless treasure of the star sea, there was some greed in Jiao Xiuyuan's eyes, but not much.

Far more than greed, there was an unprecedented solemnity.

He extended his palm, and from the center of it, a branch sprouted.

Very quickly, the sapling grew into a small tree, lush with green leaves swaying in the wind.

Carefully, he guided the strand of immortal spiritual qi into the tree's body, slowly absorbing it.

Jiao Xiuyuan closed his eyes and focused on comprehending it.

Not long afterward.

“It was indeed immortal spiritual qi, no mistake about it.” A sharp gleam flashed through Jiao Xiuyuan’s eyes, only to be replaced by deep confusion.

“So strange. With such an enormous amount of immortal spiritual qi, there are far too many things that could have been done with it.”

“And yet it was simply wasted like this?”

The more he thought about it, the more uneasy Jiao Xiuyuan became.

“And also…”

Jiao Xiuyuan raised his head and looked toward the sky.

In that brief instant just now, he seemed to have faintly sensed a familiar aura. Although it had already vanished now.

“Could it have been my imagination?”

“That makes no sense. If it really were that group, they should absolutely be frantically fighting over the immortal spiritual qi right now.”

Jiao Xiuyuan frowned deeply. After noticing someone approaching, he flashed away.

...

Ten Thousand Immortal Alliance headquarters was in complete chaos.

Not long ago, because the Dharma-Transmitting Immortal Ancestor had returned to Xuanhuang, all Dharma-Transmitters, Mirror Holders, and even the Illusory Truth Sage lineage had temporarily departed to pay their respects to the Immortal Ancestor.

During this period, a world-shaking explosion occurred within the Museum of Divine Treasures.

Not only were many of the museum’s collections damaged, but even the entire Immortal Alliance headquarters suffered violent tremors.

The surviving Immortal Alliance cultivators had not even had time to investigate the cause of the accident.

They then discovered in horror that the Immortal Alliance headquarters had been cut off from the outside world.

With no understanding of what had happened, panic spread throughout the Immortal Alliance.

However, the chaos had not yet reached the Guardian Hall, within the space of the Derivation Law Jade.

The successive tremors caused all three Dao Integration cultivators stationed there to feel uneasy.

Especially “Sun Ang.”

His aura fluctuated, his face was flushed red, and beads of sweat continuously dripped from his forehead.

“Fellow Daoist Sun, are you alright?”

The three had worked together for quite a long time and had grown much closer.

Zhang Xu could not help but ask.

Although he also felt some unease, it was nowhere near as severe as Sun Ang’s state.

“Still too young after all,” Zhang Xu thought to himself.

“Something feels wrong.” Sun Ang, who was actually Li Fan’s true body, said with apparent nervousness.

“I just tried contacting Elder Xu, but there was no response.”

Hua Yuye comforted him. “Brother Sun need not think too much. Even if some unexpected change has occurred, nothing could possibly happen within Immortal Alliance headquarters.”

Zhang Xu also frowned and said, “Actually, my predecessor as guardian also experienced something similar. It was about five hundred years ago. The space shook endlessly like this, and contact with the outside world was lost. But in the end, everything turned out fine.”

“I hope so.” Li Fan wiped the cold sweat from his forehead as he spoke.

The space of the Derivation Law Jade once again fell into eerie silence.

The violent tremors that came from time to time struck at the hearts of the three.

Li Fan calmed his mind so deeply that he even ignored the calls of the Derivation Law Jade.

He was not nearly as shaken as he appeared on the surface.

On the contrary, Li Fan felt better than ever before.

“So this is immortal spiritual qi. So this is what immortal spiritual qi truly is…”

Within his sea of consciousness, the Final Dissociation Disc was erupting with a blinding radiance never seen before.

After finally witnessing the legendary immortal spiritual energy with his own eyes, the Final Dissociation Disc had at last completed the final missing piece needed to deduce an Immortal-grade formation.

In the past, although through various fortunate opportunities he had learned the formation diagrams of three Immortal-grade formations.

Without immortal spiritual qi, it had all been nothing more than castles in the air, empty theory on paper.

No matter how profound the formations were, they still remained within the limits of the mortal realm.

But now, the situation was completely different.

After understanding what kind of existence immortal spiritual qi truly was, the Final Dissociation Disc, with its data now supplemented, had truly begun advancing toward breaking the limits of mortality.

It had gained the genuine ability to deduce and deploy an Immortal formation.

Although it would still require guidance of immortal spiritual qi.

With the ancient world-protecting formation inherently present in the Xuanhuang Realm itself, along with the newly inherited authority of the Xuanhuang Great Celestial Venerable.

Li Fan’s plan to activate an Immortal formation had become possible.

The formation was named [Immortal Descent, All Things Return to the Void].

It had to be said that this life had seen many unexpected developments that caught Li Fan off guard.

Including, but not limited to, the Holy Emperor clone going out of control.

And the fact that he had actually formed a cooperation with the Dharma-Transmitting Immortal Ancestor.

“Once strength reaches a certain level, controlling them like chess pieces becomes impossible.”

Fortunately, the many backup plans he had left behind had ultimately prevented the situation from spiraling completely out of control.

At least it had not reached the point where, after laying plans to such an extent in this life, he would be forced into a hasty use of [Truth].

The sudden arrival of the Xuan Immortal Ark was naturally due in great part to the contributions of Li Fan’s Holy Embryo clone.

The reason he had successfully persuaded the Xuan Immortal Ark to launch an expedition against Xuanhuang was not only because Li Fan had gathered ancient records from the Immortal Ark and proven that the Immortal Ruins might contain complete True Immortal seal script characters.

He had also secretly controlled cultivators to heavily damage the Immortal Ark’s divine tree.

Once the divine tree was damaged, the very foundation upon which it depended for survival was lost. Only then did everyone aboard the Xuan Immortal Ark unanimously decide to launch the expedition toward Xuanhuang ahead of schedule.

Although the Immortal Ark Council of Elders also suspected that someone had secretly manipulated events and pushed everything to this point.

The fact remained that the divine tree had been severely damaged. And the perpetrator had self-destructed and died, leaving no evidence behind.

If they wished to continue surviving within this Darkest Star Sea, coming to the Xuanhuang Realm was their only choice.

After arriving near the Xuanhuang Realm, out of caution, the Xuan Immortal Ark did not immediately launch an invasion.

Instead, they planned to first secretly probe the true state of the Xuanhuang Realm and quietly infiltrate part of their forces.

However, before their plan could be carried out, the violent energy fluctuations in the void attracted the attention of the Xuan Immortal Ark.

Naturally, this was the battle between the Immortal Ancestor and the Holy Emperor.

The power displayed by these two Supreme beings with every gesture made everyone aboard the Immortal Ark incomparably solemn.

But later, after discovering that the Dharma-Transmitting Immortal Ancestor was the same thief who had stolen the Immortal Ark’s secret archives in the past, and that the existence of the Immortal Ark itself seemed to have already been noticed by him.

The Immortal Ark had no choice but to reveal itself.

During the confrontation with the two Supreme Beings, the Xuan Immortal Ark had consumed one nearly complete True Immortal seal script character.

The Holy Embryo guessed it was the character [Hate].

It had been personally written by Zhong Daogong, the Grand Elder of the Severed Immortal Tower, who had never appeared before the public and had devoted himself solely to researching residual True Immortal power.

The Grand Elder’s strength was unfathomable. For this expedition plan, he had produced a total of three nearly complete True Immortal seal script characters.

However, after the first [Hate] character failed to achieve particularly effective results, the people aboard the Immortal Ark became much more cautious.

They began considering alliances and cooperation.

But this was forcibly interrupted by the sudden fluctuations of immortal spiritual qi coming from the Xuanhuang Realm.

When they arrived at the Xuanhuang Realm and saw genuine immortal spiritual qi surging chaotically throughout the entire world, and sensed how the True Immortal characters spread throughout the entire Xuan Immortal Ark had been stimulated and suddenly come alive, the people of the Immortal Ark completely went mad.

Even Grand Elder Zhong Daogong appeared in person for the first time, his expression dazed as he stared at the immortal spiritual qi below.

“It is pure immortal spiritual qi.”

After observing for a moment, Zhong Daogong made his judgment.

“For ordinary cultivators, it is useless. But we can use it.”

“Guide the power of immortal spirit, infuse it according to the operational flow of the source power of the True Immortal seal script...”

Zhong Daogong muttered to himself, then gave his final conclusion.

“The power that can be unleashed would be enough to rival a True Immortal.”

“If we release the entire Immortal Ark’s reserves all at once...”

“We may not be unable to leap across the High Wall with this!”

Zhong Daogong’s words quickly unified the opinions of everyone aboard the Immortal Ark.

However, just as they intended to force the Immortal Ancestor to open a path, Zhong Daogong suddenly shouted, “Be careful!”

But it was already too late.

A moment ago, the Xuanhuang Realm had still been filled with wildly surging immortal spiritual qi.

The next moment, they found themselves in an unknown place.

Zhong Daogong reacted the fastest, casting a seal script character.

In an instant, the entire Immortal Ark fell into absolute silence. Everyone aboard was drenched in cold sweat as they stared at the scene outside the Immortal Ark.

It was as if they were inside a cauldron, with the Xuan Immortal Ark floating on the surface of the water.

Outside the cauldron, an unseen existence seemed to be stirring the water inside.

The water surface continuously rotated, and the Xuan Immortal Ark drifted unsteadily with it.

The people aboard the Immortal Ark could clearly feel that the surrounding temperature had dropped significantly.

“Everyone, what do we do now?”

After a long while, Elder Gan attempted to communicate through voice transmission.

However, this voice transmission seemed as if it could be heard by the invisible existence outside the cauldron.

Bang. Bang. Bang.

That figure leaned down and gazed below.

The temperature of the Immortal Ark plummeted sharply once more.

With just that single glance, one tenth of the lives aboard the Immortal Ark could not withstand it and died instantly.

But what horrified the people of the Immortal Ark even more was this.

Those who had died aboard the Immortal Ark all transformed into faint white lights, passed through the flying vessel, and flew toward the outside of the cauldron.

A small sphere condensed in the invisible existence’s hand.

Inside the sphere, those recently deceased Immortal Ark cultivators were lying peacefully.

The invisible existence put away the sphere, seemingly noticing that there were still living beings below.

It cast its gaze toward them once again.

This time, it even tried to extend a hand and fish the Immortal Ark out of the cauldron.

From top to bottom, everyone aboard the Immortal Ark felt as if they had fallen into an abyss of icy cold.

At the critical moment, Zhong Daogong once again unleashed a set of True Immortal seal script characters.

The movements of the invisible existence slowed.

Then, as if it had forgotten what had just happened, it gradually stopped trying to fish out the Immortal Ark.

It merely continued stirring the water in the cauldron.

It did not leave.

Having learned from the previous incident, no one aboard the Immortal Ark dared communicate through divine sense any longer.

Instead, they switched to the most primitive method of communication, using their hands as pens to gesture and write in the air.

"Elder Zhong, what exactly is that thing outside?"

"Its gaze seems capable of absorbing the vitality of living beings. That single glance just now caused massive casualties aboard the Immortal Ark."

"And it does not seem to distinguish based on cultivation level. It appears random..."

"The Xuanhuang Realm actually has such a terrifying existence?!"

...

Fear, accompanied by chaos, spread throughout the Immortal Ark.

Meanwhile, Li Fan gazed outside the Immortal Ark.

He had seen that invisible existence before this life, before leaving the Xuanhuang Realm.

It was precisely the mysterious existence he encountered while exploring the Life and Death Reversal Great Formation together with Shang Shaojun.

He had originally thought that all the small worlds within the reversal grand formation were merely one of the nine Yin-Yang Pearls.

Within each Yin-Yang Pearl were countless deceased cultivators preserved in ice.

"So the Immortal Ancestor can actually control this invisible existence..."

"It seems there truly is a connection between him and the Rebirth Heavenly Sovereign."

"This existence carries an ancient aura. It should have existed since the ancient Xuanhuang Realm."

Seeing this thing once more, Holy Embryo Li Fan's understanding was already different from before.

And Zhong Daogong's subsequent analysis confirmed his suspicions.

"This thing should not be a living being."

"In the records of the Immortal Ark, there may be a passage that corresponds to it."

Zhong Daogong's fingers moved rapidly through the air as he explained his speculation.

"In the ancient cultivation world, among those worlds that maintained close ties with the upper realm, aside from establishing the position of Great Celestial Venerable to handle communication with the Immortal Realm..."

"To prevent possible loss of control, they would occasionally also establish so-called [Watchers]."

"Watchers did not necessarily exist in every cultivation world, and they were not necessarily living beings or cultivators."

"But without question, they carried out missions bestowed upon them by the Immortal Realm."

"Missions completely different from those of the Great Celestial Venerable."

The auras of the people aboard the Immortal Ark became visibly unstable.

Creations of the Immortal Realm were clearly beyond what they could handle.

Precisely because they were highly proficient in wielding the power of True Immortal seal script characters, the people aboard the Immortal Ark understood more clearly than anyone just how terrifying the existence of an Immortal truly was.

And if even a Watcher had been assigned a mission by an Immortal, how could it possibly be weak?

An atmosphere of despair began spreading throughout the Xuan Immortal Ark.

Fortunately, the words Zhong Daogong wrote next rekindled their spirits.