Chapter 2721 - 554: [Part 3]
At this moment, the entire world seemed to have plunged into an endless catastrophe.
Not only the Human Clan, but also the Demon Clan, the Sky Clan, and the Beast Clan...
In this moment, within this world, each clan’s Great Thousand World seemed to have encountered a calamity.
Amidst the catastrophe, each Human Clan cultivator flew out from their respective Great Teaching and sects, heading towards the nearest towns and villages.
Half-Sheep Village, named for the lake beside the village that, from a distance, resembled half a sheep.
At this time, many villagers had already rushed out of the village, but before they could rejoice, the lake water from Half-Sheep Lake suddenly surged forth, like tides breaching a dam, rushing towards them, seemingly about to engulf them completely.
Suddenly, in the void, a sharp gale blew, strong enough to forcibly push back the tides, and a voice erupted from behind them.
"Quick, enter the flying boat."
With those words, a massive flying boat descended.
The villagers looked at the flying boat before them and the few cultivators beside it, cheering joyously.
"Immortals, the Immortals have come."
"The Immortals are here, we’ve been saved."
"Immortal, please, my brother is still trapped in the village."
"Immortal, I beg you, have mercy, save my father, he’s also in the village."
Some immortals used spells to ward off the surging lake waters, while others hastened: "Quickly enter the flying boat, we will go to save people."
With those words, immortals had already rushed into the flying boat.
Not only in the Eastern Province, but across the Four Continents of the Human Clan, all cultivators were rescuing ordinary people.
For one thousand years, cultivators on the Four Continents had grown accustomed to the rules set by Cao Zhen. On the other hand, everyone recognized the importance of ordinary people; it was by bringing back ordinary people from the Central Continent that they could recruit more disciples, allowing each Great Teaching and sect to recover quickly.
Various Great Teachings and sects had dispatched cultivators, yet the catastrophe, caused by the emergence of the Primeval Realm portal, began to intensify.
The void quickly changed, turning pitch black at one moment, like an unfathomable black hole swallowing the sky, obscuring everything around.
Then, suddenly blindingly bright, dazzling light illuminating the land. This alternating darkness and brightness left people at a loss, unable to predict what would happen next.
The cracks in the void became increasingly apparent, as if portals to another world had opened. These cracks brought intense energy fluctuations, triggering fierce storms and lightning.
Amidst the continually changing heavenly phenomenon, suddenly, the world was plunged into darkness, and for ten consecutive days, the world seemed devoid of daylight, only engulfed by night, leading people into unending darkness and plunging temperatures due to the lack of light.
Yet, after ten days, as daytime returned, the scorching sun blistered the earth, with temperatures fluctuating drastically, making it feel unbearably hot, and once again the daylight persisted for ten days.
A series of heavenly phenomena disrupted people’s lives, although cultivators intervened, their homes collapsed, their habitats were destroyed, countless people were displaced, agriculture severely damaged, crops dwindled, risking future food shortages and widespread famine.
After the continuous ten days of daylight, bridges in the void connected together, forming a pitch-black bridge.
One end of this bridge led to some unknown place, while the other end connected to countless Great Thousand Worlds.
The Human Clan, Sky Clan, Demon Clan, Beast Clan...
The Great Thousand Worlds of each clan were interconnected because of the bridge portals.
Almost at the instant the bridges appeared, a silhouette soared into the sky from the void.
Sword Lord of Three Talents!
Although the Eight Clans Alliance had previously agreed on allocation of quotas, the problem was, no one knew whether cultivators from other clans would adhere to the rules.
The portals wouldn’t differentiate between them, so he chose to immediately fly to the bridge to prevent cultivators from other clans from entering the bridge.
Similarly, cultivators from the Sky Clan, Demon Clan, Beast Clan, all clans had the same idea, and they too flew out, arriving outside the bridge.
Soon, the figures of Ling Xi and Xiang Ziyu appeared before Cao Zhen.
Although his disciples entered the Golden Immortal Realm relatively late, their talents were inherently good, and previously, whether in the Earth Immortal Realm, Immortality Regainment Realm, or True Immortal Realm, they were the strongest group. After entering the Golden Immortal Realm, they remained extremely formidable.
Although they entered the Golden Immortal Realm after the realm’s tournament was held, the next Golden Immortal Realm tournament was far off.
Originally, it was said that the Immortality Regainment Realm tournament was held once every thousand years, True Immortal Realm every two thousand years, and Golden Immortal Realm every three thousand years.
Normally, they didn’t have a quota for entering the Primeval Realm, but they had once held quotas for the True Immortal Realm. It was previously agreed that those cultivators who originally held quotas, upon entering the next cultivation realm, could challenge a cultivator holding a quota; defeating the opponent would allow them to gain the opponent’s quota.