A Demon Saint at the Immortal Level could never accomplish this. Only a Great Saint at the Celestial Realms level, the kind that exists in ancient legends, could possibly have such power.

Shaken with terror, the old man felt a sudden impulse. Amidst the world-shaking sounds, he looked toward the Cosmic Edge Wilderness. There, too, miraculous signs began to bloom—Golden Lotus Immortal Flowers spread everywhere, and auspicious clouds appeared unendingly.

And beyond the phenomena, at the very edge of the wilderness.

“Th-that is…” The old man began to tremble slightly.

Through the gray, hazy Boundary of the Great Heaven and Earth, he, he seemed to see figure after figure, boundlessly magnificent, staggering toward him!

The figures reached the other side of the Boundary and began striking it again and again, as if seeking to return!

The Boundary thrummed and rippled, but the figures outside failed to break through. Instead, they each began to emit terrifying, indistinct Dao sounds.

The old man shivered. Suppressing his immense terror, he tried to listen to the complex Dao sounds coming from beyond the Boundary. They were faint and chaotic.

The figures seemed utterly exhausted, as if just roused from a deep slumber. Their Dao sounds carried a tone of weakness, and with the Boundary in the way, the old man had to channel all his Spiritual Sense just to barely make out what they were saying.

“In the Shangqing Realm… in Biyou Palace… the Fishing Drum sounds…”

“Master calls… summons us to gather… summons us to return…”

Amidst the chaotic Dao sounds, the clearest were a few crying voices. The old man trembled, unable to believe his ears.

‘Beyond the Boundary lies absolute nothingness, a dead silence—a stretch of Chaos!’

‘It is said one must be at least Immortal to survive in that absolute stillness, and only those at the Celestial Realms level can traverse it freely!’

‘How could such terrifying Existences be crying?’

Stunned, the old man listened desperately to the crying.

“Master, I have rebelled against the Celestial Court…”

“Master, I have rebelled against the Buddha Land…”

“Master, we know we were wrong, we all know we were wrong…”

“Duobao, smash the Boundary! Master is playing the Fishing Drum to summon us! Quickly, smash the Boundary…”

The Boundary RUMBLED from the impacts, and the aftershocks alone caused half of the GN-Z11 Galaxy to collapse!

“I can’t… My injuries are too severe, I severed my own Buddha Foundation, and the world has not fully recovered. I can’t break it… I can’t go back…” The blurry figure smashing the Boundary spoke, his voice choked with sobs.

‘Gravely injured… Buddha Foundation… the world has not yet fully recovered…’

Putting this information together, the old man swallowed hard. He suddenly realized that the beings beyond the Boundary… were likely the Immortals and Buddhas who had vanished in Ancient Times!

‘Wait, the Fishing Drum sounds, and Master summons them?’

‘There are at least a dozen figures outside the Boundary right now… and someone is the Master to a dozen terrifying Ancient Immortal Gods??’

He glanced in the direction of the THUMPING sounds. His gaze pierced through hundreds of millions of light-years, landing on the small Fixed Star System enveloped by the blood-stained Great Wall. Instantly, a chill shot up from the base of his spine and spread throughout his entire body!

‘There is a great terror in the Origin Land… a great terror!’

The old man’s scalp went numb. The back of his head tingled, a tremor ran from his spine to the tips of his hair, and his entire body and bones began to tremble!

…….

On the Ancestor Star, the source of the Fishing Drum’s sound, the music was vast, unending, and surged with violent power!

Across the entire massive planet, various phenomena continuously manifested, descending from the sky and sinking into the earth.

In the cities, countless people looked up, listening blankly as the THUMPING sounds wove into a war anthem, watching the sky fill with Golden Lotuses, Immortal Flowers, and auspicious clouds.

Suddenly, someone cried out in alarm:

“It’s changing again!”

Someone looked up. The Celestial Vault was suddenly stained crimson, as if about to weep!

“This is…” Li Xiaosang was bewildered, recalling a secret she had read about two days prior.

‘The Celestial Realm is about to weep… It’s… it’s the sign of a Grand Grade’s fall!!’

Listening to the war anthem in her ears gradually fade, she couldn’t stop trembling and muttered to herself:

“Where did such a heaven-shaking battle break out that a Grand Grade has died… Which supreme figures are fighting, which ones are at war??”

As she spoke to herself, she couldn’t help but swallow. Although she didn’t know which great being had died, still…

‘The state of the world is probably about to undergo a massive change.’

As her heart pounded, Li Xiaosang suddenly thought of that young man and zoned out for a moment.

‘With his talent, if he doesn’t die, in a few hundred years he’d probably be able to dominate an era and personally participate in a heaven-shaking battle of this level…’

“How wonderful,” Li Xiaosang whispered.

….

The phenomenon of a Grand Grade’s fall echoed across the entire Ancestor Star.

「South Pole.」

BANG!!

The one shimmering with Buddha light couldn’t hold back and crushed a Buddhist Bead. Terrifying Buddha light spilled out, surging and vast.

“That lamp, and that Fishing Drum…” His expression was filled with suspicion and uncertainty, frighteningly grim.

Beside him, the one lush with Dao Rhyme also had a grim face and said gravely:

“They must both be from the Sanqing Temple, from that mysterious Sanqing Temple Master… As expected!”

He muttered to himself:

“That Cyan Lamp is excessively terrifying. And that Fishing Drum… when it plays, the entire Cosmos can hear it. They are both Supreme Treasures… But why can the Fishing Drum make the True Dragon Corpses dance? It makes no sense…”

The one shimmering with Buddha light was silent for a moment. After calming himself, he said in a low voice:

“Perhaps the Sanqing Temple has a major connection to the Qin of Ancient Times. The Nine Dragons Pulling the Copper Coffin arrived, containing something that surpasses the Immortal level—a relic of the Qin. Yet the Fishing Drum can move nine Immortal Dragon Corpses…”

The two great beings, a Celestial Venerable and a Buddha, exchanged a look, their expressions incomparably solemn.

After a long moment, the one lush with Dao Rhyme said softly:

“I have a feeling that the Sanqing Temple and the Coffin and Casket that fell on Taishan will become obstacles to the Emperor’s return.”

“I have the same premonition…” The one shimmering with Buddha light pinched a ball of vast Buddha light, lost in thought. “We can’t delay any longer. Inform those outside the pass. It’s time they made a move.”

The one lush with Dao Rhyme nodded, then said:

“The Dragon Corpses are strange. And that boy named Lu Xuan is extremely close to the Sanqing Temple Master. He could be a major threat in the future… Let’s use a two-pronged approach. The Outer Demon Race needs to make a move, and so do those three conglomerates.”

…..

「Taishan.」

The lingering killing intent of the Grand Grade slowly dissipated. Previously, only a few Immortals could perceive the scene here. After the killing intent faded, many powerful gazes from Grand Grades and True Immortals swept over again, but they were all swatted away by Yan Huang.

He and Qing Ping flanked Lu Xuan, supporting the heavily injured young man as they walked to the gate that was on the verge of collapse.

Yan Huang said in a low voice:

“To this day, we still don’t know what the Peach Blossom Spring is really like inside. We can only determine that it’s a Little World, separated from the Ancient Era, that has continued to exist until now.”

After a pause, he continued:

“We sent people to communicate with the beings inside before, but they were very wary and refused to let us enter in large numbers. And just now, at least a dozen Earth Immortals and dozens of Celestial Humans went inside…”

Lu Xuan coughed up blood, his face pale as he said:

“The Nine Dragons Pulling the Coffin and the Dead Immortal don’t seem like they’ll be making any moves for a while, so we don’t need to worry about them for now… The gate can’t withstand the might of a True Immortal. I’ll go in first to find Xiaoyan and the others. Uncle Yan, you can handle the aftermath out here.”

“No!” Yan Huang said grimly. “Your injuries are too severe! And no one knows what the situation is like inside the Peach Blossom Spring…”

“I’m fine.” Lu Xuan waved his hand, managed a difficult smile, and summoned the Jade Void Glazed Lamp again. Before the astonished eyes of Yan Huang and Qing Ping, he activated it with a thought.

The candlelight flickered, and from within it separated an incredibly terrifying quality of primordial energy and an extremely dense Divine Essence!

“This is…” Yan Huang asked, stunned.

Lu Xuan caught his breath and answered weakly:

“This flame seems to only burn Concepts and Cause and Effect. The primordial energy, Divine Essence, and so on that Sakata Shindo gained from his Cultivation have all been purified and preserved.”

After a pause, he continued with difficulty:

“I’m currently undergoing a Physical Tribulation, so it’s not good for this body to absorb the primordial energy and Divine Essence right now. But as soon as my injuries heal a little and my body stabilizes, I can refine this terrifying essence burned from the body of a Grand Grade. When that happens, not only will I recover, I might even be able to advance further…”

Yan Huang looked shaken. This lamp was excessively terrifying. It had actually burned away the impurities from a Grand Grade’s entire life’s worth of Cultivation and returned it to its purest source…

After thinking for a moment, he nodded solemnly.

“Alright then, I won’t stop you. But you must be extremely careful after entering the Peach Blossom Spring!”

“I know.” Lu Xuan coughed up more blood. He forced himself to stand straight, nodded to Qing Ping and Yan Huang, and then strode toward the faint, crack-covered gate.

He was only halfway through when the entire gate began to vibrate violently. Yan Huang and Qing Ping’s expressions changed slightly.

In the next instant, it seemed to have reached its breaking point, unable to even bear the body of an Earth Immortal.

The instant Lu Xuan disappeared inside, the gate collapsed with a BOOM.

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