The gray-robed man's face was dark enough to drip water; the void in this place began to fracture layer by layer due to his emotional changes.
He had been invincible for a thousand years. Since he completely took control of the Ancient You Eight Great Realms a thousand years ago, he became synonymous with "Supreme" in this "Ancient You Immortal Realm."
Therefore, he had been cultivating his descendants over the years.
Although he was already invincible, he was still stuck at a bottleneck that he couldn't break through. He realized his own fortune was exhausted, and he could never advance further in his lifetime.
So he pinned his hopes on his descendants, hoping to use the means at his disposal and all the cultivation resources of the Eight Great Realms to cultivate a Heavenly Dao Qilin Child.
Fortunately, Heavenly Dao favored his Lin Family. One hundred years ago, his 102nd great-grandson, Lin Feng, exhibited astounding talent!
In a mere hundred years, he grew from an Innate Wasted Vein all the way to the current Divinity Transformation Realm.
One hundred years, to the gray-robed man, didn't even count as a retreat; it could only be considered a brief rest.
Thus, in his eyes, Lin Feng seemed like a young Divinity Transformation Cultivator emerging from his family after a brief rest.
He himself, back in those days, took five hundred years to step into the Divinity Transformation Realm, a speed that was already legendary at that time.
A Divinity Transformation in a hundred years; even as the Lord of the Eight Realms in the Immortal Domain, he couldn't help but exclaim, "Astounding talent!"
.....
So, ten years ago, he sent Lin Feng into the Primordial Realm, secretly cultivating him to become his successor.
Moreover, five years ago, he received good news from the Primordial Realm that Lin Feng had already cultivated the Divinity Transformation Four Treasures, just one treasure away from the legendary Divinity Transformation Five Treasures!
His own cultivation back in the day barely reached Three Divine Treasures.
Hence, he regarded Lin Feng as the greatest hope of the Lin Family.
Yet, it had only been a short while, merely five years, and to him, it was like closing and opening his eyes, only to find that both the person and the world had disappeared entirely!
.....
The gray-robed man took a deep breath, first calming the rage burning close to an eruption.
He started analyzing.
Why did the Primordial Realm vanish into thin air?
The Primordial Realm had always been the most prosperous, central realm of the Ancient You Immortal Domain, contested for millions of years since ancient times.
Yet all the dominators, including those who ascended as lords of the Immortal Domain, could only contest the control over the Primordial Realm, limited to contests, absolutely never achieving "relocation!"
How could a properly functioning Great Realm disappear into thin air?
Also, there was nothing but void here, no trace of any battle; the possibility of it being detonated was ruled out.
Moreover, if the entire Primordial Realm were detonated, the entire Ancient You Immortal Domain would have shattered, wouldn't it?
The Primordial Realm felt as if someone forcibly excavated it, for although there was no scent of battle, a very obvious gap was left in the space here.
This "gap" was not a lack of space but a deficiency of laws, rules, or even time!
It was as if someone had moved everything from the Primordial Realm into thin air!
No one throughout the entire ancient history of the Immortal Domain could achieve the unnoticed relocation of the entire Primordial Realm, either now or in the future!
.....
"Jiang Cheng."
"Guard me."
"I want to carry out a deduction."
With that, the gray-robed man sat cross-legged in the void.
The towering golden-armored man waved his hand; his spiritual power released, compressing and confining all the void here into a perfectly isolated barrier to guarantee absolute safety.
The gray-robed man hardened his heart and burned one-tenth of his essence blood.
In an instant, terrifying blood energy enveloped his entire body, making him appear ethereal as a powerful aura erupted.
Even with the golden-armored man guarding the way, the tiniest bit of aura that overflowed caused the surrounding void to begin twisting.
Upon seeing the king burn his essence blood directly, he realized the gravity of the situation.
Now, throughout the entire Immortal Domain, the king was an unmatched existence at the supreme point.
What kind of person, what kind of existence would prompt the king to burn his essence blood for deduction...?
At this moment, the king was at his weakest. The golden-armored man couldn't be careless. He controlled the hundred-inch space they were in, continuously shifting through space cracks.
This method could avoid certain scheming Realm Kings from discovering the king's weak state.
The king was the King of the Eight Realms, and although no one dared to challenge his royal authority, if certain Realm Kings discovered an opportunity, they would certainly spare no effort in pulling the king down.
After all, the position of King of the Eight Realms was undoubtedly enticing.
...
In order to deduce how the Primordial Realm disappeared, the gray-robed man did not hesitate to burn his essence blood for deduction.
Though the main purpose was to recover traces of his disciples and grandsons, another crucial reason was to determine whether it had been relocated.
If indeed it had been relocated by "creatures," then he, as the King of the Eight Realms, would be unseated.
Such a formidable existence that could easily relocate the Primordial Realm, if it wanted his head as Lord of the Eight Realms, who could stop it?
So, he had to eliminate this dangerous factor.
...
As the deduction continued...
The gray-robed man's thoughts began to drift, and his perspective kept switching...
Finally, he glimpsed a scene.
This scene was from the moment the Primordial Realm disappeared.
However, the scene was incomplete, only revealing a hazy half.
From this scene.
He saw an immense, void hand traversing infinite void, arriving in this Ancient You Immortal Domain.
Then, this immense void hand reached toward the entire Primordial Realm.
In the blink of an eye, the entire Primordial Realm was seized by the void hand, taken somewhere unknown...
In the final instant, in a blur, he seemed to see a human silhouette, a person standing on a riverbank.
At the sight of that silhouette, the gray-robed man's deduction abruptly halted, his eyes snapped open, and he spat blood.
The golden-armored man guarding the way saw the king spit blood and widened his eyes, hurriedly asking, "King... Are you alright?"
Upon hearing this, the gray-robed man's voice trembled a bit, "Jiang Cheng, quickly leave here! Take me back!"
In the next moment, the golden-armored man dared not hesitate, manipulating the space as the two returned to a secluded void.
The gray-robed man's face was deathly pale, cold sweat drenched his back, he was panting heavily; no one knew what terrifying scene he had witnessed.
"King?"
The gray-robed man slowly raised his head, looked at the golden-armored man, and spoke word by word, "From now on, the Eight Realms will be changed to Seven Realms."
"No one is allowed to delve into the cause of the Primordial Realm's disappearance."
"If anyone investigates, according to the highest law of the Immortal Domain, they will be executed without exception!"
"Moreover, this matter must not be mentioned again, and that includes you."