"A Shard of Eternity hmmm..." Noah, a senior member of the Eternal Virtue Organization, contemplated as he flew across the vast, sprawling, moonlit landscape of Erigigor. Noah always thought a shard of eternity would spawn in one of the central worlds maybe even the Spirit realm, but he then thought the battle for the Shard would be better for everyone's sake, really, if it took place in an almost uninhabited, huge world such as the one that he was currently flying across.
Suddenly, a large figure burst from the ground in front of him at insane speeds, the figure rapidly became visible as it shot towards him, the figure, now looking like a massive toad opened its mouth thinking that the ant above him would be crushed by its powerful jaws. But as soon as the toad closed its jaws around the figure, it burst into a shower of gore. "What! a Reticulated Sky Toad all the way out here! " Noah, covered in toad guts, exclaimed in disbelief. "No wonder barely anyone has settled in this world." He then proceeded to clean his clothes with a simple skill, Cleanse. Soon after, he started lamenting over the fact that he would probably be sent to clear this world once the shard was claimed unless he actually got the shard which would result in him reaching unimaginable levels of power and becoming the most powerful being in this universe, but that was basically impossible.
As he resumed flying across the starry sky, he started wondering what would happen once he reached the location where the shard was, "Would the Sect Leader of the Reincarnation Sect be there to try to claim the shard for himself? Or maybe even the Dragon King might try his luck and come here" Noah shuddered at the thought of what would happen if these forces clashed. But then relaxed because most of his organization along with the leaders would come to try to keep the peace whilst trying to get the shard for themselves.
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When he finally reached. But alas, he was not alone, thousands of other beings who were at the same level of power as him or beyond it were already there, massive dragons that blot out the sky, chimeras, cultivators, and other beings, all waiting for the shard to spawn. After several minutes of staring hostilely at each other and gathering their power. For a battle that would probably result in the destruction of this world and others surrounding it, that's when they felt it.
Faintly visible surges of INCREDIBLE power of all kinds started rotating in the middle of where everyone was. Everyone's eyes started lighting up with greed and desire including Noah's. The surges of power started becoming more and more visible until the display started lighting up the entire sky. Noah and several other beings started cautiously backing up because their intuition told them that there was something wrong, while everyone else greedily moved closer to the shard trying to absorb a fraction of the sheer power that the center was emitting. Then it exploded. The last thing Noah saw before being vaporized along with everyone else, was a shimmering crystal.