Outside the Cold Realm, as soon as Wang Wu stepped out, he encountered three half-step Daluo whose expressions were astonished, as if in a daze.

But they seemed to have no intention of intercepting him.

Therefore, Wang Wu naturally didn’t want to court trouble himself, and mainly worried about potential future complications, so he hurriedly left.

Really, at this moment, he felt somewhat surreal. Did he escape just like that?

So, how should he account for the hundreds of years he painstakingly struggled?

It made him feel both amused and bewildered.

Especially after he managed to flee hundreds of thousands of miles without seeing the three half-step Daluo pursuing him. Is this really over?

He felt quite unaccustomed to this, or maybe it was a trap, and soon a Daluo would make a move personally?

Wang Wu began to worry again, and so he continued onwards without stopping, aiming to distance himself from the Cold Realm. After three days passed, nothing happened.

No Daluo from the Cyan Dragon Race came to settle accounts with him, nor did that Bai Yu come with a group of people to make a comeback.

It was as if nothing had happened at all.

Really, what kind of world is this?

Wang Wu finally paused, as if he could finally hold his head high and somewhat confidently observe this legendary and long-renowned Outer Heaven.

Indeed, before this, he basically had no chance, and even if he did, he wouldn’t dare observe, fearing he would expose himself, violating his Gou Dao principles by revealing any traces.

"Just consider this a trial balloon. I don’t believe it, can this matter really end like this? Can the Cyan Dragon Race swallow this anger? The Cyan Dragon Race has two Daluos, after all."

Wang Wu found an excuse for himself, then operated the Heaven and Earth Shield. Internally, the Yin and Yang Qi wasn’t particularly coarse or clear, but was undoubtedly more stable and flexible, sweeping up, down, left, right, forward, and backward.

Three seconds later, he ended the observation with a slight feeling of guilt, and the situation of Outer Heaven was basically clear to him.

"So, this is Outer Heaven—however, I’ve always fallen into a sort of misconception about it."

"Outer Heaven isn’t scattered or boundless; it still has an inherent structure, with layers and dimensions."

"Yet, Outer Heaven isn’t like those nested dolls, layer upon layer, but rather—it’s originally part of the Cultivation Realm."

Wang Wu reflected, benefiting from his current level and realm, mainly because he could use Yin and Yang Qi for observation, which sharply raised his perspective by several levels.

In his view, there were several key points.

First, Outer Heaven and the Cultivation Realm, once blown apart by Dubhe, cannot be separated; calling it Outer Heaven is a mistake in itself.

Second, there is no primary-secondary distinction between Outer Heaven and the Cultivation Realm; as a whole, it vaguely forms a vortex-like structure and is capable of orderly operation on a macro scale.

Third, if there’s a difference, the Cultivation Realm, once blown apart, is more like the core of this vortex structure.

Now, even with the core blown apart, the remaining ruins are still extremely vast and occupy the center. From all directions, there is still an endless flow of Chaotic Spiritual Qi converging to the center, which should be why the ruins of the Cultivation Realm can never be fully excavated.

Wang Wu thought, without strong intervention, perhaps after several million years, a new Cultivation Realm could be formed above these ruins.

Fourth, surrounding the ruins of the Cultivation Realm are the evenly distributed Cold Realm, Wind Realm, Fire Realm, Thunder Realm, and Cyan Wood Realm—these five special single-element Cultivation Realms.

These five realms cycle and rotate, creating the Twenty-four Solar Terms through their changes.

Indeed, there aren’t twenty-four realms, only five.

That is the Five Disasters.

However, in Wang Wu’s view, these five realms seem greatly affected by the self-destruction of the Cultivation Realm, making them quite unstable.

This realization made him immediately understand that the reason no Daluo came to trouble him might be thanks to the madness of that old Dubhe back then.

The current vortex structure couldn’t withstand another Dubhe self-destructing!

That’s right, this is absolutely the reason.

But on a further note, the composition of this vortex structure is remarkably sophisticated, bearing a striking resemblance to the only Great Dao cultivated by the cultivators.

No, this is precisely the path of cultivation formed by living beings referencing and reflecting the world.

The only Great Dao pursued by cultivators is actually this vortex-like structure.

The Twenty-four Solar Terms, Nine Extremes Calamity, Five Aggregates of Spiritual Qi, even the Three Calamities, Five Disasters, and Yin and Yang Qi are the most critical nodes in this vortex structure.

At this moment, Wang Wu even felt a chilling and thrilling illusion. He thought, could this vortex structure be the result of cultivation to its extreme by an existence of a level higher than the Daluo Golden Immortal?

Could it be possible that all these living beings are small creatures living within this existence’s body?

"Therefore, no wonder the Daluos want to cultivate the Astronomer Prophet. Faced with such a hypothesis, once you think of it, it cannot be erased from your mind, but fortunately, I’m just taking small steps now—a half-step Daluo, so there’s no need to worry about this."

At this moment, Wang Wu simply stimulated the Yin and Yang Qi again, brazenly scanning and observing.

He had already seen through it. At this moment, unless he wanted to self-destruct, no Daluo would step in to take care of him.

Because this vortex structure was currently unstable.

This is the foundation and reference for all their cultivation and all living beings.

Once this vortex structure collapses, all Divine Techniques will fall.

Wang Wu and Old Man Dubhe were bound by Forbidden Techniques at the time, and now all Daluo and Half-step Daluo would be similarly bound; this is almost certain.

Oh, but one shouldn’t be too absolute; perhaps as long as one can self-validate the Yin and Yang, the Daluo who achieves the singular Dao could be largely exempt from the impact.

But anyway, he didn’t need to play it safe anymore, that’s for sure.

This time, Wang Wu used the Yin and Yang Qi for a full twelve seconds before stopping. It was quite thrilling.

This time he saw more carefully, more clearly, even seeing through the entire Twelve Celestial Immortal Realms.

Including the original purpose of the Twelve Great Luo in creating the All Heavens Immortal Realm, he could guess a bit.

"Back then, these Daluo were quite ambitious; they must have wanted to unveil the mystery beyond Daluo, which is why they created the Twelve Great Luo. I guess not more than five seasoned Daluo spearheaded it, the others were just numbers, especially the five newly-promoted Daluo who suppressed Dubhe at the time."

"However, Old Man Dubhe was too tough, too volatile; a single self-destruction messed up their plan completely, not only making their plan indefinitely postponed but also destabilizing the basic structure."

"So now, the Twelve Celestial Immortal Realms are connected and slowly descending, seemingly about to merge with the ruins of the Cultivation Realm!"

"Tsk tsk, interesting, interesting. So bold before things went wrong, after things go wrong, they can only patch things up, hahaha!"

Wang Wu was quite gleeful.

He found joy in this, because if not for this reason, he could roam freely here. Those twelve Daluo weren’t joking around; back then, when they said they’d take action, they would, they said they’d suppress, and they did — thunder and rain were all heaven’s blessings.

In short, this matter is favorable to mid-tier cultivators; as for the lower-tier cultivators, it’s always been the same, no big changes despite changes.

"If I’m not mistaken, going forward, these twelve Daluo might semi-retreat, moving behind the scenes, but the number of Half-step Daluo will skyrocket like expanded university enrollment, flooding the scene."

"The change this brings is resources becoming more scarce, Half-step Daluo becoming more diluted and competitive; the future protagonists will be Half-step Daluo, but what does that have to do with me?"

Wang Wu chuckled, chose a direction, and calmly left. This time, he wouldn’t go against the flow to crash head-on with the Twenty-four Solar Terms. All he needed to do was follow behind clockwise, enjoy the changes of the Twenty-four Solar Terms without worrying about clashing with the Cold God, Fire God, Wind God, Thunder God, or Poison God.

In fact, this is the proper way to navigate Outer Heaven.

Counterclockwise, he would see nothing but a desolate and dark void in Outer Heaven, making him wonder if only he was left in this world.

But clockwise, oh my, looking ahead, thousands of Spirit-Catching Ships carrying over a hundred massive Floating Cities stretched like a dragon, sprawling endlessly far.

This was all the remaining wealth of the Cultivation Realm, all migrated out.

What struck Wang Wu as oddly intriguing was that the powers like the Nine Alliances, Three Conferences, and Two Sects, which were dissolved fifty thousand years ago, were now regrouping, depending on these huge Floating Cities carried by the Spirit-Catching Ships, continuing their music and dance.

The Cultivation Realm was gone, but here was a new, mobile Cultivation Realm.

Aside from the Nine Alliances, Three Conferences, and Two Sects, there seemed to be a dozen new forces, but they may have already existed in Outer Heaven, and now with the Twelve Great Luo easing the restrictions, have sprung to life like wild grass in the spring breeze.

As the saying goes, where there are people, there are pugilistic worlds. As long as the environment for cultivation and inheritance persists, everywhere is the Cultivation Realm.

Yet Wang Wu noticed a detail: in this mobile Cultivation Realm, not a single Half-step Daluo was to be seen, which was a significant change.

In the past, sixty or seventy thousand years ago, the leaders overseeing various factions were all Half-step Daluo.

Now they’ve all been downgraded to Taiyi Ninth Tier.

Wang Wu leisurely arrived at this mobile Cultivation Realm and quickly found the Floating City of the Hidden Origin Association.

This was a massive Floating City formed by eighteen combined Spirit-Catching Ships, with an area exceeding three hundred million miles.

Even the Spirit-Catching Ship that Wang Wu modified was among them.

However, the Hidden Origin Association as it once was, with many familiar faces, was no longer there.

Lu Tong, Feng Muhai, Zhuang Bufei, and Qu Shenglian were all gone.

The Father of the Frost Monarch was nowhere to be seen either.

And the former leaders of other Five Domains had mostly changed.

Interestingly, though, the current leader of the Hidden Origin Association was Xu Taiping!

Yes, the same Xu Taiping whom Wang Wu once found astonishingly talented in cultivation had become the leader of the Hidden Origin Association.

The real deal.

It’s remembered that sixty thousand years ago, he had just reached Taiyi Second Tier, and now he was already Taiyi Ninth Tier, exuding authority without anger.

Wang Wu observed in secret for half a day before appearing in front of Xu Taiping.