Chaos Void Cavern, the Future of Mountain Sea (Part 1)

Mountain Sea Annals, Year 100,018.

Above the Nine Heavens.

By now, the sprawling Heavenly Palace that Li Yang had borne aloft had long since become crumbling walls and shattered ruins.

Amid the endless rubble, twisting light and shadow gave rise to layer upon layer of illusory star rivers and phantoms of chaos.

As mottled flowing light surged, the Daoist in a blue crown and dark robe and the Black Shadow steeped in the aura of the Abyssal Ruins squeezed out from torn time and space, returning to their starting point.

The Dao Fruit behind the Black Shadow's head had already been cleaved open along its seam by a single sword strike. That Pure Yang Dao Fruit had split cleanly into two, becoming two half-step Pure Yang Dao Fruits once more.

And that was not Jiang Sheng's achievement alone.

With the power of Jiang Sheng's Heaven-Cutting Sword, he simply could not have forcibly split a Pure Yang Dao Fruit, even one with flaws.

In truth, before Jiang Sheng's sword had fallen, the Black Shadow's Dao Fruit had already been torn apart by an invisible, intangible force.

That force was like a gentle breeze, like rippling water. It appeared soft, yet between illusion and reality, it had shredded the Black Shadow's Dao Fruit and knocked him down from the Pure Yang rank he had only just ascended to.

That was Qingyan Heavenly Venerable's power. The Heavenly Venerable had used the Dao of wind and water to cut apart the Black Shadow's Dao Fruit, stripping away his rank and casting him back to the starting point.

The Black Shadow's cultivation was still falling without pause.

Just as before, when he had taken three steps to reach the pinnacle of Void Refinement and five steps to attain the completion of Body Integration, his cultivation