Outside Cyan Grass Mountain, black mist churned.
Endless black mist surged from all directions like a tide, surrounding Cyan Grass Mountain.
The black mist blotted out the sky and obscured the stars.
All it passed was reduced to nothingness.
If someone were to look down at all this from high above now, they would be horrified to discover.
That the entire Spirit Realm, except for Cyan Grass Mountain, had already been overtaken by black mist.
And Cyan Grass Mountain was like a lone boat in a stormy sea, about to be engulfed by darkness at any moment!
"Darkness has arrived, the twilight of the era... does the Heavenly Dao Will intend to harvest an era again?"
"This is an apocalypse, from which no one can escape!"
A few Harmonization Celestial Monarch residual souls, lingering since the Ancient Era, turned deathly pale, their voices trembling uncontrollably.
They had lived through long eons and had witnessed the demise of the Gu Cultivator civilization; more than anyone, they understood what this strange black mist represented!
It heralded doom and extinction, all things would cease to exist.
Even Harmonization Celestial Monarchs were powerless to resist this eerie black mist.
They could only watch helplessly as their loved ones, friends, and disciples were consumed by the mist.
To survive.
They were forced to succumb to the darkness, accepting control and corruption from the Heavenly Dao, clinging to life with but a thread of a soul.
Though the apocalypse of the past was perilous, at least it left a glimmer of hope.
But this wave of black mist swept to settle all accounts, seeking to annihilate everything in the world, leaving no escape!
"The Heavenly Dao Will has gone mad; this is a true apocalyptic calamity."
Faced with the looming strange black mist, many powerful beings felt as if they were falling into an icy abyss, enveloped by an unprecedented crisis of life and death.
Some Tribulation Crossing True Monarchs refusing to sit idle, burned their Law Dao Marks in unison to unleash Supreme Divine Techniques, attempting to halt the spread of the black mist.
In that instant.
Various terrifyingly powerful magics and divine techniques filled the world, causing the void to quake incessantly.
Yet these attacks, which could ordinarily destroy the world, fell into the black mist like mud into the sea, utterly ineffective.
Moreover, the eerie black mist could swallow all energy, growing denser after absorbing all the magic and divine techniques!
"It’s useless; this black mist represents the Heavenly Dao Will, and even Harmonization Celestial Monarchs can’t harm it in the least!"
A Celestial Monarch’s soul fragment let out a bitter laugh, their heart utterly consumed by despair.
Upon hearing this, many Tribulation Crossing True Monarchs completely collapsed.
Some chose to end themselves rather than be devoured by the mist.
Some knelt, desperately kowtowing and begging for mercy, hoping for forgiveness from the Heavenly Dao Will.
Yet the boundless darkness remained unmoved, directly engulfing all.
"This is not a place for you to come!"
As the black mist eroded everything and was about to blanket Cyan Grass Mountain,
a deep voice suddenly echoed in Yunxi’s ears.
"The master has emerged?"
Yunxi turned her head joyfully to look.
She saw a slender figure, like a teleportation, suddenly appear in the midair.
His gaze was cold, his long hair fluttered, and his whole body exuded a transcendent aura of eternal immortality, unaffected by all calamities.
After fifty years of secluded and painstaking cultivation.
He had long since refined all Law Dao Marks and, relying on his Heaven-defying Comprehension, continuously perfected his Dao and Skill.
Ultimately achieving the utmost sublimation, he had taken the final step!
Though he stood there, one felt he was untouchable, as if he existed simultaneously in the past, present, and future.
He was untouched by Cause and Effect, could not cross Reincarnation.
He was already beyond the world, not within the Five Elements, embodying Great Freedom, Great Liberty, and Carefree!
"Is this the legendary one proof of eternal proof, has he truly stepped into the rank of Immortal Venerable?"
The other Harmonization Celestial Monarchs were dumbfounded, exclaiming uncontrollably.
An Immortal Venerable, one proof of eternal proof.
An existence like this could create life and destroy all beings with a thought.
They had already returned all their power to themselves, completely transcending this world, no longer bound or controlled by anything.
Even the Heavenly Dao Will could not intervene in the least.
Some Enlightenment Immortal Venerables could even open new world planes or replace the Heavenly Dao Will to become the Dominator of this realm!
Merely because of the deformed Heavenly Dao, even Harmonization Celestial Monarchs were few and far between in this world.
As for Enlightenment Immortal Venerable, they existed only in legend, unlikely to be born even once in hundreds of thousands of years!
"Enlightenment Immortal Venerables are not tolerated by the Heavenly Dao; only with great willpower, great fortune, and great Creation of Unparalleled Celestial Pride can there be a slim chance for Enlightenment."
"If my old memory does not betray me, since the creation of this realm, the only successful Enlightenment powerhouse was perhaps that Longevity Immortal Venerable?"
An experienced Harmonization Celestial Monarch sighed with emotion.
Longevity Immortal Venerable!
The greatest powerhouse of all time, and the only successful Enlightenment Gu Dao Immortal Venerable!
However, he existed so long ago that much information has been buried by the River of Time.
So much so that even long-lived Harmonization Celestial Monarchs might not know his name and deeds.
Only some fragmented ancient books contain a few scant words.
It is said that Longevity Immortal Venerable was indifferent by nature, acted discreetly and humbly, but held an almost obsessive fixation with longevity!
He didn’t hesitate to take longevity as his Dao title.
Even though the All Heavens and Myriad Realms will eventually decay and collapse.
Enlightenment Immortal Venerables are merely Dominators of a realm; how could they achieve true longevity in any way?