The ground shook with increasing violence until it was nearly impossible to stand.

Before their eyes, the vast Myriad Immortals Island tore free from the earth and began to rise slowly into the sky.

Some desperate cultivators tried to make a break for it, charging through the light threads surrounding the island.

They all met the same fate.

The moment they left the confines of Myriad Immortals Island, beams of light descended from the heavens and cut them down where they flew.

The screams and wails of cultivators rose without end.

The surrounding space seemed completely sealed. Even the phenomena accompanying the cultivators' deaths appeared warped and distorted, crammed together in the sky above.

The Five Elders Council's...