Deep in the Heavenly Abyss, clear light blazed; within the Demon Domain, an azure lotus bloomed

In an instant, heaven and earth, the entire cosmos, froze.

Wind, thunder, water, and fire vanished without trace. Only a streak of iridescent sword light, like rippling autumn waters, pulsed from the blade's edge.

That sword light was dazzling and resplendent, as though it contained the past and ran through the future. It embraced the years and severed lifespans.

It was the second move of Heaven-Cutting: Severing Time.

As the longsword in "Li Jianchun's" hand slashed down, even the Yin-Yang Four Symbols Sword could not bear the razor-sharp sword intent that cut heaven and earth and severed time. As Severing Time's sword light swept forth, the Yin-Yang Four Symbols Sword shattered inch by inch, scattering into specks of radiance.

In the Demon King's eyes, heaven and earth suddenly darkened. The Five Elements perished, the Four Symbols vanished, and the hundred-thousand-mile demonic serpent it had summoned disappeared. Within the chaos, there remained only endless desolation and ruin.

Spiritual essence and clear and turbid qi did not manifest here; even the ancient qi of the Six Heavens had vanished. Lost within this chaos, it could not distinguish east from west, north from south, above from below, left from right. Even "Li Jianchun," along with the demons filling the sky, had disappeared. There was only dead silence, as though proclaiming the final calamity of heaven and earth.

After an unknown length of time in that soundless, deathly place, the Demon King heard the murmur of flowing water. It abruptly looked over and saw that, at some point, a brilliantly colored stream had begun flowing from west to east. The stream ran placidly, as though it contained all things beneath heaven.

As it gazed at that stream, the Demon King gradually became dazed. It saw endless time, immeasurable space.

Silent ripples gradually swept through