The Chaos Sea was vast and boundless.
Everything was nurtured within the Chaos Sea, including the Ancient Universes. They began in the Chaos Sea, and even when they finally perished, they were buried within it. It was an eternal place that gave birth to all things and buried all things.
Here, there was endless chaotic energy, the origin of everything, nurturing countless living beings and countless treasures. It was truly boundless and vast; even a true Emperor could not explore its entirety.
This was a place of eternal silence.
Silence was the eternal theme here, unchanged throughout the ages.
Apart from the chaotic energy, there was nothing else, and no one had explored it. Not even an Emperor might have explored it.
On this day, the silence here was broken. In the Chaos Sea, a peculiar stone coffin slowly sailed in, breaking through layers of chaos before coming to a stop in this void, chaotic domain.
Beside it was a Bronze Great Halberd, simple and unadorned.
Just like that, an unknown length of time passed—perhaps a month, perhaps a year, perhaps ten years, or perhaps a hundred, a thousand, or even ten thousand years...
In chaos, there is no concept of time; past and present are unknowable. Only silence is eternal.
The stone coffin floated in the chaos. Gradually, the simple stone coffin actually began to glow, with faint strands of light swirling and shimmering around it. Wisps of chaotic energy were being absorbed by the stone coffin.
As time passed, the stone coffin's absorption of chaotic energy grew faster and faster. In the end, it seemed to transform into an endless abyss, continuously devouring boundless ancient chaotic energy, like a bottomless pit that could never be completely filled.
Fortunately, this was the Chaos Sea, where nothing was abundant except chaotic energy, which could never be exhausted.
The mysterious stone coffin absorbed for many years in the Chaos Sea. Only after a long time, when the chaotic energy within a radius of ten thousand li had thinned considerably, did it stop its devouring and return to its former silence.
Time continued to flow. After many more years passed, suddenly, the Chaos Sea boiled up from its silence.
A fearsome storm arose within, vast and mighty, its reach unknown for how many tens of thousands of li. The endless Chaos Sea began to churn, as if it could shake the heavens.
Within it, the mysterious stone coffin and that mysterious Bronze Great Halberd were caught up, swept along by the Chaos Storm toward an extremely distant place.
It was said that this was a Chaos Storm, a catastrophic, destructive tempest that even an Ancient Monarch would dread. Once encountered, it would destroy many worlds opened within the Chaos Sea, and even Ancient Universes would suffer some degree of impact.
For example, the Sealed Boundary Universe, a colossal entity standing in the Chaos Sea, unimaginably vast—even a Chaos Storm blowing past could not shake the massive Ancient Universe.
However, this particular Chaos Storm was exceptionally violent. Even an Ancient Monarch encountering it would change expression, and an Emperor seeing it would frown.
Boom—
The endless Chaos Storm violently struck the cosmic barrier of the Sealed Boundary Universe, unleashing boundless destructive power, even comparable to the might of an Emperor. Moreover, some terrifying transformation occurred.
Crack—
While the Sealed Boundary Universe was sealed, the Chaos Storm violently exploded. Clusters of chaotic light erupted with extreme intensity, undergoing a terrifying qualitative change that gave rise to spatial-temporal rifts, briefly connecting with the interior of the Sealed Boundary Universe.
But this opportunity was fleeting, difficult for even an Emperor to seize.
At this moment, that mysterious stone coffin and the Bronze Great Halberd precisely slipped into the spatial-temporal rift and vanished.
Feixian Domain, though a major domain near the edge of the myriad realms, was extraordinary. It was said that during the Mythical Epoch, a true supreme immortal descended here, hence the name Feixian Domain. It was indeed a powerful major domain.
Even looking across the entire myriad realms, excluding the center of the Myriad Domains, it could rank forty-ninth.
Moreover, the Great Dao numbers forty-nine; the missing "one" is the flying immortal. All of this made this major domain somewhat extraordinary.
Countless forces stood within the major domain, with prodigies emerging in abundance. It had always been remarkably prosperous and flourishing, beyond description.
Mingyang Kingdom was a prosperous and powerful Ancient Kingdom within Feixian Domain, with a heritage of over a hundred thousand years. Its national power was so strong that it was only a step away from an Immortal Sacred Land.
On this very day, a terrifying storm swept across the vast Mingyang Kingdom, with immense momentum, flashing thunder, and many strange phenomena appearing in the sky.
There was an unshakable, majestic Immortal Heavenly Pass; there were millions of alien race fierce soldiers; there were seven majestic demonic shadows standing between heaven and earth; there was a thirty-three-layered Immortal Dao Pagoda; there was a man in white stained with blood blossoms; there was a peculiar six-layered ancient coffin...
All of this, accompanied by the roar of great battles, appeared exceptionally unique, causing hundreds of millions of citizens within Mingyang Kingdom to panic, trembling as they knelt on the ground, believing it to be an ominous sign from heaven.
At the same time, a mysterious stone coffin tore through the firmament, broke through the layers of wind and rain, and descended from the sky, directly obliterating a vast mountain range into dust, leaving behind a giant crater nearly a thousand li in radius.
The descent of the stone coffin from the heavens instantly shook the ten directions, attracting the attention of many.
Especially since this stone coffin descended during that mysterious night, filled with strangeness and widespread phenomena, it was regarded by many as ominous.
Throughout Mingyang Kingdom, news spread: an ominous ancient coffin descended from the heavens upon the Guyang Mountain Range, collapsing the land for a thousand li around, annihilating countless demonic beasts living within. It was extremely sinister and accompanied by terrifying phenomena—it must be the return of an evil spirit buried by heaven.
Ancient legends said that after some terrifying great terrors in the myriad realms died, their corpses remained undecaying and could still wreak havoc in the mortal world. They would be buried in the starry domains, exiled in eternal darkness, never to return.
This peculiar stone coffin was also believed to be the burial coffin of an ancient great terror, suddenly returning with shocking phenomena—it must be an object of great horror.
Upon learning the news, Mingyang Kingdom immediately dispatched powerful experts from the Ancient Kingdom to the fallen Guyang Mountain Range and stationed a large army there, forbidding unrelated individuals from entering.
Moreover, the King of Mingyang was alarmed and personally went to investigate.
At the same time, news of the heavenly-descended stone coffin spread with astonishing speed like lightning.
Soon, the major forces across the vast Feixian Domain learned of it. Even first-rate forces from several nearby major domains heard of it and spared no effort to cross domains to come. Among them were Immortal Sacred Lands, stirring up a storm that shook several major domains.
All of this was because of the terrifying phenomena that suddenly appeared in the sky. Everything was believed to be related to the mysterious stone coffin.