Cultivation of immortality begins with an eighty-year-old eunuch.

"No!"

Amidst desperate roars, Wang Zhenyue and Wang Zhennan, along with the entire ancestral land of the Wang family below—the sprawling palaces, the beautiful mountains and rivers, and the thousands of Wang family members and servants—were all frozen in place by this single palm strike.

Time seemed to stand still for a moment.

The next moment, the wind rose.

A gentle mountain breeze swept across the land of Youzhou. The original ancestral home of the Wang family was now a flat plain.

All buildings, living beings, and even the ley lines were completely flattened, turning into a hard, flat area with a slightly glassy sheen, as if it had been crushed and scorched by an invisible giant hand.

There were no ruins, no bloodshed, only the purest "nothingness".

Chen Fan withdrew his hand, stood with his hands behind his back in the air, and looked in other directions of the Great Yu Cultivation Kingdom.

The Zhao family, the Qian family, the Sun family, the Li family, the Zhou family, the Wu family, the Zheng family... the other seven families were all in cahoots with the Wang family back then, joining forces to hunt them down and offering bounties. They were also involved in this cause and effect.

His figure flickered and disappeared from the spot.

The next half day was a period of dramatic change for the Great Yu Cultivation Kingdom and even for the entire Tiannan Star.

Seven ancestral homes of ancient families, all located in various states of Yu the Great and places rich in spiritual energy, have encountered the same situation as the Wang family.

The clan's protective formation vanished silently. Regardless of their cultivation level, all the clan's cultivators were reduced to nothingness by that incomprehensible and irresistible force, and the ancestral land was reduced to white dust.

There was no intense battle, and few cultivators even witnessed the exact appearance of the bluish-gray figure. Only the aura, as vast as the might of heaven yet as indifferent as the Dao itself, flashed by above each wiped-out aristocratic family, leaving the survivors and onlookers in the distance with endless fear and shock.

The news spread like wildfire, reaching all of Da Yu in an instant, and then even faster, sweeping across the states of Zhao, Chu, and Wei, and even the boundless seas and desert grasslands.

The imperial family of Yu was shaken. The Grandmaster of the Nascent Soul stage, who had been in seclusion, was disturbed and came out of seclusion. Looking at the strangely "clean" area in the direction of Youzhou, he remained silent for a long time. In the end, he just sighed and strictly ordered the royal family members and court officials not to make any irresponsible remarks or investigate.

In the depths of the Imperial Palace in the capital of Zhao, Crown Prince Zhao Yan, who had already assumed the authority of the ruler, received a secret report, and the jade slip in his hand silently slipped to the ground.

He recalled the pale-faced eunuch who came from the time of Yu the Great, who had amazed everyone in the Zhao state during the selection process, and who later helped him consolidate his position. A chill ran down his spine for no reason, yet he also felt a sense of relief.

I'm glad that back then, I ultimately chose to befriend them rather than make them my enemies.

Deep within the boundless sea, near the ruins of Demon Abyss Island, a jet-black beam of light abruptly halted. Song Tianren stood on the sea surface, gazing in the direction of Yu the Great. For the first time, a violent fluctuation appeared in his indifferent black eyes—a shock, and a hint of deep-seated apprehension.

He murmured to himself, "Chen Fan...you actually went this far..."

In the vast desert grasslands, within the City of Ten Thousand Gu, the Gu King, who had just emerged from seclusion and whose aura was becoming increasingly unfathomable, suddenly found a strange Gu worm in his hand frozen to death.

He squinted, looking south, his face devoid of its usual majesty and disdain, replaced only by profound solemnity.

Tiannan Star fell into an eerie silence because of one person's actions. All the forces and powerful individuals qualified to know the inside story understood one thing.

The fate of Tian Nanxing has been completely altered from this day forward.

Chen Fan, who was once hunted down and forced to hide, has now become a being who reigns supreme over all forces on this planet.

……

Half a day after annihilating the eight great families, Chen Fan appeared in the desolate state at the southernmost tip of the Great Yu Cultivation Kingdom.

This place remains barren, with scarce spiritual energy and rampant sandstorms.

He walked slowly across the barren land, the cracked yellow earth beneath his feet. This was the outer area of ​​the sealed land where he had been swept out by spatial turbulence years ago.

Standing before a desolate beach strewn with jagged rocks, Chen Fan looked up at a certain point in the void. In his peak Tribulation Transcending perception, the spatial structure there had subtle distortions and faults, the aura of an ancient seal remained, and a faint fluctuation left behind by himself when he left, almost worn away by time.

Seventy-odd years is a long life for an ordinary person, but for him, it was just a rather tortuous chapter on his long path of cultivation.

He broke through from the mid-Nascent Soul stage all the way to the peak of Tribulation Transcending, experiencing pursuit, dormancy, opportunities, and arduous cultivation along the way.

Returning to the starting point now, I feel little emotion, only a sense of peace that the cause and effect are settled and the road ahead is clear.

Chen Fan raised his right hand and lightly traced a line in the air with his index finger.

Without using any brute force, what flowed from his fingertips was a wisp of pure and profound power of the rule of "stillness," which faintly echoed the sealing veins remaining in the space in front of him.

This is the Fixed Character Technique that he comprehended from the legacy of the Soul Refining Sect and perfected through seventy years of arduous cultivation in the Starry Sky Hall.

"Sizzle!"

With a soft, almost shrill sound, the space ahead was silently ripped open like a curtain of water. Within the opening was not a raging spatial current, but a stable, deep passage, at the end of which a familiar yet oppressive dark red light could be faintly seen!

That was a color unique to the sealed land.

Chen Fan stepped inside, his figure disappearing into it. The spatial rift behind him then closed, leaving only howling sand and wind on the barren, red land.

……

The moment I stepped into the sealed land, a spiritual energy far more depleted and decaying than I remembered rushed towards me.

There was also a hint of violence, chaos, and power mixed in!

The overwhelming pressure of the Fusion Stage!

Moreover, it is more active and closer to breaking the seal than it was back then.

Chen Fan's eyes narrowed slightly, but his face remained calm and expressionless. With his current cultivation level, he might have been able to take the Soul Refining Sect's ancestor seriously in his prime, but a remnant soul of the Fusion Body that had been sealed for ten thousand years and whose strength was reduced to less than one-tenth was no longer a threat to him.

His journey here is precisely to settle the greatest cause and effect of this place of origin.

Chen Fan did not alert anyone, and even completely concealed his peak Tribulation Transcending cultivation and Daoist aura, simulating the spiritual energy fluctuations of the late Foundation Establishment stage.

His appearance also became ordinary and unremarkable under the subtle adjustments of the Fixed Word Technique, like a low-level rogue cultivator who was born and raised in the sealed land and struggled to survive.

Then, he identified the direction and flew slowly towards the core area of ​​the Great Abyss Dynasty in his memory.

The scenery along the way is vastly different from what it was more than seventy years ago. The land of eight kingdoms, once plagued by frequent wars and fragmented by sectarian factions, is now a vast, interconnected territory.

The official roads were smooth, post stations were numerous, and cities and towns were well-ordered. Ordinary people and low-level cultivators lived together, and most of them wore nameplates or patterns that symbolized their status in the Great Abyss.

In the sky, cultivators flew in their escape lights, but all followed fixed "heavenly paths." Chen Fan even saw several patrol teams composed of Qi Refining and Foundation Establishment cultivators, dressed in standard armor and disciplined.

"Dayuan has been unified for decades..." Chen Fan murmured to himself.

Thinking back to when he left, Emperor Wu Xiao Wu was leading his iron army to sweep across the land, and the Great Abyss was at the height of its power. Now it seems that his disciple not only achieved unification, but also established a management system that far surpasses that of secular dynasties, resembling the prototype of a "cultivation kingdom".

However, due to the limited spiritual energy and resources of the sealed land, their highest combat strength will probably still be limited to the Nascent Soul stage.