Chapter 636 367: The Significance of the Ancient Star

In this way, hundreds of millions of years passed in the blink of an eye.

The Immortal Race had finally obtained an eternal pure land, which came to be known as the Immortal Realm.

Although the Immortal Realm was locked within a conjoined universe, its vastness and abundant resources were more than enough to support the Immortal Race's continued existence and prosperity.

However, there is no such thing as an eternal pure land in this world.

After several hundred million more years, the Immortal Realm, which had experienced ages of prosperity, finally met its fated internal strife.

There were mighty figures who were not content with stagnation. They wished to venture into the world outside, to explore and discover, to seek the limits of the Dao and the boundlessness of Immortals.

They had no desire to achieve a false, supreme immortality within a false pure land.

Thus, wars erupted, and conspirators seeking to sow chaos arose one after another. Over tens of thousands of years of conflict, the vast Immortal Realm was torn asunder and fell to ruin.

Ultimately, a powerful expert known as the Eternal Immortal Emperor was born in this Immortal Realm.

He was a radical who wished to ascend to an even higher Realm.

After his forces had gradually conquered more than half of the Immortal Realm's starry sky, the Eternal Immortal Emperor gathered the mighty figures under his command and forcibly separated the two conjoined universes.

As a result, the conservatives occupied the smaller black hole universe.

The Immortal Emperor's faction, in turn, occupied the larger primordial universe.

With the rebirth of the two universes, the greater cosmos that had enveloped them was revealed before the eyes of all members of the Immortal Race.

Countless mighty figures of the Immortal Race led their followers out of the primordial universe and began to prosper and multiply in the greater cosmos.

And so, the current state of the world came to be.

"Then which universe are we in?"

Someone asked the ultimate question.

'What layer are we on? Are we on the layer of the primordial Ancient Star?'

"Just as you've guessed, we are indeed on the layer of the Ancient Star—the very same one where the Immortal Race and the Divine Domain first coexisted."

Carefree Immortal Venerable said with a sigh after a moment of contemplation.

"What?"

The cultivators were all aghast. They had originally thought they were from a High Tier world, searching for the lowest-level Ancient Star.

But as it turned out, they were the ones from the Low Tier.

"Then... Immortal Venerable, what about your strength?"

Someone asked curiously. Logically speaking, an Immortal Venerable from a greater cosmos that was countless Levels higher should be an unparalleled mighty figure.

How could he have suffered a setback after arriving in the Ancient Star's universe?

Hearing this, Carefree Immortal Venerable shot the speaker a displeased glare.

"I can't defeat the Lord, but that doesn't mean I can't crush all of you."

Carefree Immortal Venerable rolled his eyes, but then turned and gave Xiao He a sheepish, fawning smile.

"Be that as it may, don't you think a key piece of information is missing from all this?"

Zhao Rui asked in a deep voice.

"Please, speak, my Lord. This humble one will tell you everything I know, holding nothing back."

Carefree Immortal Venerable said hurriedly with a bow.

"But what does any of this have to do with the Ancient Star?"

Zhao Rui asked with a frown.

"Well..."

"Hm?"

"My Lord, there is something you may not know. This Ancient Star is the Star of Origin. As long as the Star of Origin exists, the Immortal Realm will not be destroyed."

"But if the Ancient Star were to disappear, the entire foundation of the Immortal Realm would be exposed, and the links to all the primordial black holes would be severed.

In that case, the Immortal Realm would be cut off from its roots, unable to continue developing and growing in the new universe.

Furthermore, the mighty figures within it would have no way to continue evolving and ascending.

"Then what was the Immortal Emperor's purpose in sending you here?"

Zhao Rui asked curiously.

"To protect the Ancient Star, of course. And to prevent the Ancient Star from developing Immortal arts, which would threaten its safety."

Carefree Immortal Venerable replied in a low voice.