Seeking Fortune and Avoiding Evil in the Cultivation World

Chapter 1501: Chapter 697: The Fallen Immortal Realm, Another Destiny Hint

”Finally arrived.”

Jiang Fan sensed his body traversing through layers of dimensions, finally reaching the legendary Immortal Realm.

The moment his feet touched the Immortal Realm’s ground, the Heaven-Stealing Ladder suddenly withdrew all its golden light and pressure. The Dao Patterns slowly dimmed, and its form shrank visibly to the size of a hand once more, transforming into a stream of light that silently merged into Jiang Fan’s brow, returning to the depths of his Divine Soul.

At this moment, he began to observe the surroundings.

”No way, is this really the Immortal Realm? Is it real?”

Jiang Fan’s pupils contracted.

He knew the Immortal Realm might differ from the Ancient Era, but he never imagined it would be like this.

Boom!

In an instant, when his feet first touched this land, a piercing cold and lifelessness seeped through the remaining aura of merit around him, spreading through his meridians to the depths of his Divine Soul, causing the golden light around him to momentarily stall, and his expression became as grave as possible—before him, the Immortal Realm had no trace of the legendary glorious scene but only endless darkness and despair, like a barren graveyard devoured entirely by an evil deity.​

The entire Immortal Realm was firmly enveloped by an extremely thick black fog. This fog was not loose mist but sticky and heavy like molten tar, jet-black as ink, with a faint green glow, slowly writhing and flowing, each surge carrying a nauseating stench and decay.

Within the black fog were countless fragmented soul shadows and broken Immortal Bones, struggling in agony within the fog, silently screaming yet unable to free themselves from this sinister bind, only to be eroded and devoured little by little, eventually becoming part of the black fog.

The black fog’s pressure was as heavy as a prison, not mere power suppression but stemming from the original malice of ten Great Immortal Race Daos, entering the nostrils as if swallowing icy mud, chilling to the bone, even the Divine Soul seemed frozen. Jiang Fan’s Primordial Magical Power instinctively activated, and the golden light around him dimly lit to barely resist this wicked erosion.

Even more bizarre was that this black fog could devour all light and Spiritual Qi, even the power of the Primordial Domain could only form a weak barrier within three feet, unable to pierce through at all, trapping this Immortal Realm in eternal darkness.

”What on earth happened to the Immortal Realm?”

Jiang Fan’s face was extremely grave.

He saw above the sky, no sun, moon, or stars, only a peculiar dark sun, suspended at the thickest core of the black fog, occupying most of the sky.

This sun had no warmth, entirely black, its surface full of twisted dark purple patterns like the pupil of an evil deity, coldly overlooking the entire Immortal Realm.

What it emitted was not light but a cold, muddy black-red dim glow. When it fell onto the ground, it not only failed to bring brightness but exacerbated the withering of all things. The cracks on the ground reflected by the dim glow glimmered with eerie blood light, and the air’s lifeless atmosphere grew heavier.

Surrounding the dark sun were countless fragmented eerie runes, sharing origin with the ten evil deity’s Dao runes. Each flicker made the black fog denser, making the despairing atmosphere between heaven and earth heavier, as if this dark sun were the energy core of the ten evil deity Daos, maintaining the operation of this dead Immortal Realm.

The earth beneath, long lost vitality, reduced to a dry and cracked wasteland.

The vast and boundless territory of the Immortal Realm showed no hint of greenery, no trickling Spiritual Springs, no towering Immortal Wood, no birds or beasts, not even the lowest-grade Spirit Grass could survive, only endless barrenness and desolation remained.

The land appeared a deathly gray hue, covered with web-like cracks, the depths unseen, vaguely revealing the dried Spirit Vein remnants buried deep underground. Those veins that once nourished all things in the Immortal Realm are now blackened, shriveled, curling like dead bones beneath the earth, emanating decay.

Occasionally, a fierce wind would rise, carrying skyward desiccated dust and bone fragments. The dust settled with a biting cold, while the bone fragments retained a faint sinister aura, clearly the remains of former Immortals, eroded by the ten eerie Dao’s forces, unable to preserve even the bones.

On the ground were countless shattered Immortal Artifacts and Daoist Robes scattered about. The Immortal Artifacts had long lost their Spiritual Light, becoming rusted and frail, while the Daoist Robes turned yellow and brittle, crumbling at the touch, left with traces of curses and magical stains, narrating the catastrophe that befell this Immortal Realm.

”Are these the ten Daos enveloping the Immortal Realm?”

”Aside from these ten Daos, the other Daos have already concealed themselves.”

”There’s simply no match against them.”

Jiang Fan’s eyes showed a glimmer.

He could sense the manifestation of one grand Dao after another in the deep origin of the Immortal Realm.

These belong to the Immortal Race’s Daos.

They were like ten supreme evil deities, firmly entrenched in this Immortal Realm, locking all vitality and hope.

The ten Daos weren’t invisible Dao Rhymes but rather manifest as enormous sinister pillars of light, black as an abyss, standing straight in the space-time, stretching from beneath the dark sun to the depths of the earth, penetrating throughout the Immortal Realm.

Each Dao’s diameter reached tens of thousands of feet, its surface crawling with twisted, writhing evil deity runes, each with varied colors—dark red curse runes, gray-black decay runes, dark green lament runes, jet-black death runes—these runes moved like living things across the Dao’s surface, weaving together, emitting a world-destroying terror aura. Each rune’s flicker caused the void in heaven and earth to tremble slightly, disrupting the Laws.​