This sudden upheaval had happened far too quickly.
Even the three venerables had been unable to act in time.
The three venerables' original plan had been to wait for You Hun Demon Venerable and the sun to clash, leaving both sides mutually destroyed. Though You Hun Demon Venerable acted according to his nature, he still possessed the instinct to survive. Once heavily injured, he would retreat.
At that point, the three venerables would strike You Hun Demon Venerable while both sides were mutually destroyed.
As the three venerables faced off, You Hun Demon Venerable remained an enormous variable. The possibility of him recovering his sanity could not be entirely ruled out, so their unspoken understanding was to eliminate this variable first.
Just as during the battle of Mad Demon Cave, Ju Yang Immortal Venerable and Star Lord Immortal Venerable had first wanted to eliminate all the Quasi-Immortal Venerables present.
What had caught the three venerables by surprise then was that the sun had actually collapsed first.
Contrary to what the world had always believed, the truth was that the sun concealed two Rank 9 Immortal Gu, as well as a mysterious Primeval Legendary Beast.
The sun's foundations far exceeded all estimates.
Going by those foundations, with You Hun Demon Venerable lacking his sanity, he should have been even harder to deal with and would certainly have been the first to fail and lose.
Yet the Primeval Legendary Beast hiding within the sun had actually been frightened away.
It would not have mattered if it fled, but the crucial point was that it had taken away a Rank 9 Immortal Gu.
The moment that Immortal Gu left, the sun lacked its core. Its formerly stable state abruptly vanished, and it immediately collapsed.
"Even the strongest and sturdiest Gu House can be