Transcending two realms to become an earth immortal

A demonic tribulation at the Dao realm?

Fang Chen's expression was solemn.

Within Dao City, demons roamed everywhere. What kind of scene must this calamity, which demons called a catastrophe, be?

"What is the Dao Realm Demon Tribulation?" he asked in a deep voice.

The three performers remained silent for a moment, then flicked their fingers.

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The surrounding scenery changed abruptly.

The ruins vanished like smoke, and the blue bricks beneath our feet turned to nothingness.

Suddenly, the sound of the tide surged into my ears, initially like distant thunder, then clearly audible. It was the sound of millions of heavy, turbid waves crashing together, deep and long, as if it had come from time immemorial.

The darkness spread like ink.

Fang Chen focused his mind and found himself standing in an endless, dark void.

Beneath their feet lay thick darkness, while overhead, a few faint lights flickered in the dim light. In the distance, larger orbs of light rose and fell, some perfectly round like a full moon, others shattered like broken mirrors, emitting a pale, eerie green glow, like a fallen, decaying world.

"Ancient times said that there are nine heavens." The voices of the three immortals echoed in the darkness, carrying a vast and resonant quality. "The highest heaven is the Fangguang Heavenly Realm, said to be the abode of immortals and gods, and also the place where the Dao Ancestor transmitted his teachings. However, beyond the nine heavens lies not the end..."

He raised his hand and gently pressed it into the void.

The darkness before me was like a curtain being slowly drawn back, revealing a magnificent scene—

A vast, boundless, and chaotic dark ocean stretches across the void.

The seawater was neither black nor gray, but an indescribable turbid color, with turbid waves surging, twisting, and swirling within, never at peace, exuding a sinister aura that seemed to devour everything.

Within this dark and primordial sea, which seemed capable of annihilating all things, floated a piece of land emitting a faint glow.

Its terrain is majestic and imposing, its outline still faintly visible; it is none other than the legendary Central Plains of China.

The sky, like a vast dome, covers the four directions; the earth, like a plate, floats on the primordial sea. Divine mountains and fairylands, scattered like stars across the four corners of the earth, lie beyond which lies endless void. Heaven and earth, at their four extremes, vast and boundless, ultimately return to the primordial chaos…

This perfectly aligns with the ancient Taoist verse:

Chaos floats on the primordial sea, divine mountains and fairylands are arrayed like stars.

The four cardinal directions, vast and boundless, return to the ocean; heaven and earth, vast and boundless, unite in perfect harmony!

"The Daoist scriptures say: Before Heaven and Earth took shape, they were vast and boundless, clear and bright, hence the name Tai Zhao (Great Illumination). The Dao began in the void and mist, from which the universe was born, and from the universe, primordial energy was generated." The three-headed immortals pointed to the land shimmering in the light and shadow, their voices solemn, "The pure and yang, thin and ethereal, became Heaven; the heavy and turbid, solidified and stagnant, became Earth… Heaven is round, Earth is square; this is our realm!"

"The world we inhabit is a floating continent within this chaotic primordial sea. Within it lie blessed lands and grotto-heavens, the immortal mountains on land; the Nine Heavens Ancestral Court is the highest peak. The faint outline of light surrounding the land is the [Heaven and Earth Membrane] that shelters countless living beings. Beyond the membrane lies the [Void Primordial Sea], which devours and gives birth to all things, boundless and extremely dangerous, truly a place where the void is impossible to cross!"

"If the membrane of heaven and earth is intact, the world will naturally be stable. No matter how the chaotic sea roars or how towering the waves are outside, this world will remain unmoved and intact." As the Three Immortals spoke, the illusory continent of faint light stood as steady as Mount Tai amidst the surging chaotic waves. "As long as billions of living beings reside within the membrane of heaven and earth, they can avoid the erosion of the chaotic sea and enjoy peace."

He paused slightly when he got to this point.

The scene in the illusion then suddenly changed drastically!

That majestic continent has begun to collapse!

In the illusion, it seemed as if an immeasurable calamity sweeping across the universe had suddenly descended!

Countless blessed lands collapsed one after another, and immortal mountains and divine realms vanished like bubbles. From the center of the Central Plains, countless spiderweb-like cracks spread out, and fragments of the continent peeled away at the edges, falling into the chaotic primordial sea below that devoured everything... This was the great calamity of the past!

However, at this critical moment when heaven and earth were about to collapse, a point of boundless light and power suddenly burst forth from the core of the continent, transforming into endless clear radiance that swept in all directions, forcibly mending the main cracks, and even generating billions of dazzling light threads, like a net that held the collapsing heaven and earth in place, preventing it from falling into the final abyss... This was an ancient great being, united with the Dao in the world!

Even if a powerful being were to attain enlightenment and sacrifice themselves to stabilize this world, they could only barely prevent the core of the continent from collapsing.

But the cracks that covered the heavens and earth could never truly be healed. Instead, under the erosion of time and the impact of the Yuan Sea, they slowly widened day by day...

"This world has long been shattered." From the darkness, the voice of the Three-Headed Immortal resounded in a low voice, carrying an indescribable heaviness. "Although ancient powerful beings have merged with the Dao to barely maintain it, they are merely forcibly gathering countless fragments together. How can such a broken and assembled body withstand the boundless and all-consuming Void Ocean for long?"

He pointed to the fragments that had been torn from the edge of the continent and collapsed in the cataclysm:

"Those small pieces with shallow foundations, unable to resist the erosion of chaos, and possibly swallowed by the Void at any time, as well as the core of heaven and earth that has been shattered by the great calamity... are what is called the [Old World Light and Shadow]. What remains in them is nothing but the echoes of bygone years, born in the morning and dying in the evening, as illusory as smoke."

The finger moved toward the slightly larger, still relatively intact fragment:

"Those places that were once blessed by the spiritual veins of the Central Plains, producing outstanding people and possessing immortal mountains and divine realms, have a relatively solid foundation and are slowly being swallowed up by chaos. Such places are called the [Yin-Yang Realm]... However, in these places, living beings and dead souls coexist, the mortal world and the underworld intertwine, and the boundaries have long been blurred."

Finally, it landed on those surviving plateaus deep within the continent:

"As for blessed lands and grotto-heavens, ancient great beings' dojos, and places where the essence of heaven and earth is concentrated, they are the furthest from the Chaos Sea and have the most stable foundations; these are the grotto-heaven realms. The place where we are is among them."

Fang Chen looked at the fragmented, crumbling light and shadow of heaven and earth and felt a chill run down his spine.

"This world, which is on the verge of collapse, is merely slowly sliding into the abyss of chaos," the Three-Headed Immortal continued. "This process may take no more than a hundred years, or it may be able to linger for tens of thousands of years, but it will never be overturned in an instant."

"However, the problem is..." The three True Immortals' tone suddenly changed, becoming heavy, "that Void Sea of ​​Primordial Chaos is not eternally peaceful, but will have... rising tides."

As soon as the words were spoken, within the illusion, outside the world, the once calm chaotic sea suddenly surged!

At first, it was just a gentle ripple, but then turbulent waves gradually rose, one after another, creating countless turbulent waves that piled up one after another, and finally turned into a terrifying tide that covered the sky and encompassed the entire universe!

This great tide was formed by a mixture of countless chaotic primordial energies, world debris, and even void behemoths. Wherever it passed, even the void itself was squeezed and cracked.

The colossal wall advanced silently, crashing heavily onto the shattered continent—

A deafening roar exploded within the illusion!

"When the world was strong, even the strongest waves couldn't destroy the entire continent; at most, they would only affect the creatures on it," Daoist Mingjun said in a low voice. "But now, this continent is nothing more than a pile of fragments forcibly assembled..."

As the giant wave crashed down, the already precarious fragments began to collide violently!

The light and shadow of the old world collided with the Yin-Yang Realm and vanished like bubbles. The Yin-Yang Realm collided with the Dao Realm of the Cave Heaven, directly causing the former to collapse and the latter to crack open.

This scene is like a collision between a blessed land and a celestial cave, and the tremor it causes alone is enough to overthrow hundreds of millions of lives.

And with each collision, countless fragments shatter, merge, and shatter again.

And what is hidden among those fragments?

Three real people raised their hands and pointed, and the scene suddenly zoomed in—

In a fragment of light and shadow from the old world, ancient ferocious beasts such as Xiangliu, Zhuyan, and Jiuying, which had long been extinct, roared to the sky, their bodies wreathed in inextinguishable poisonous fire, and the void rotted wherever they passed.

In another fragment, there are distorted laws of nature, where time flows backward, cause and effect are disordered, the living turn into skeletons, and the dead recite morality.

Within another fragment, a desolate and broken world groans in agony. Rivers of filthy blood seep from cracks in the earth, and countless corpses rain down from holes in the sky, among which wander countless twisted beings, half-human and half-demon…

When these fragments collide, the distorted laws of nature and the broken laws intertwine, giving birth to an indescribable terror.

They devoured, merged, and mutated each other; some were annihilated by the chaotic tides, while others managed to survive and transform into even more terrifying calamities...

The three real people stopped, and the scene suddenly disappeared.

Returning to the ruins, the sky was bleak and the three immortals looked at Fang Chen. After a moment of silence, Fang Chen said:

"The void sea surges with tides, and heaven and earth suffer an unprecedented impact. Countless fragments of worlds—the [Old World's Light and Shadow], the [Yin and Yang Realms], and the [Cave Heaven Dao Realm]—will rise and fall, collide, and be swept away by this chaotic tide. The demons, distorted heavenly laws, and fallen worlds sealed within them will all be poured out, intertwined, and merged. The beings upon them are about to face a great calamity..."

He paused:

"And this is—the [Dao Realm Demonic Tribulation]!"

"Furthermore, according to the three, the powerful beings on the floating island have already performed divination. This calamity, the tribulation that our city will face, is the nexus of the old underworld, the final resting place of billions of souls—"

"【Looking-Homeward Terrace】!!!"