It’d already been a full year since Lu Yun’s visit to the World Gates. The nine celestial emperors and Violetgrave could keep the gates under control for only ninety-nine more. However, that was a secret known only by a select few. Lu Yun hadn’t expected Zhao Shenguang to so decisively reveal it to the entire world. 

Development of the current world of immortals had begun only eighty thousand years ago. The world hadn’t even established a basic order to immortal dao since then, let alone recover to its peak. Mortals still outnumbered immortals by a great margin.

Though, perhaps it was better to have the cat out of the bag. At least those peak factions will stop picking on me from now on, thought Lu Yun.

Under everyone’s accusatory scrutiny, the immortals...