The Heavenly Pillar was like a prison cage, the Heavenly Maiden its prisoner, and Zhou You its jailer.
This enormous prison between heaven and earth suppressed the Heavenly Maiden and trapped Zhou You as well. Neither could leave.
Inside the Heavenly Pillar, there was no light, no living thing—time itself had even lost all meaning.
Zhou You simply used vibrations to mark the passage of time. Someone lifting the Nine Cauldrons counted as a major tremor; outsiders attacking the Heavenly Pillar counted as a minor tremor.
As time passed, the major tremors became increasingly frequent, while the minor tremors gradually grew sparse.
This meant that the flourishing fist martial arts of the outside world had produced an explosive emergence of masters. More and more Half-Saints had become qualified to lift the Nine Cauldrons. Correspondingly, attacks on the Heavenly Pillar in the Southern Border had become fewer and fewer.
The local situation had already been brought under control. It was a relatively optimistic development.
Then one day, Zhou You suddenly detected something unusual. The two ears of the Small Cauldron formed from his torso had actually heard voices.
The voices came from outside, and their content concerned him. That was why they could penetrate the Heavenly Pillar's million-meter diameter and reach its interior.
Without realizing it, Zhou You's Nine Cauldrons Body had reached an unimaginable level.
By a conservative estimate, the nine Small Cauldrons Zhou You had divided into were now already comparable to saintly artifacts.
Outside the Heavenly Pillar...
Two figures faced each other in the vast sky, while below them a dense sea of people gathered to watch this great battle.
Neither combatant was anything less than a peak expert of the present age. One was "Rem" Mu Leizheng, while the other was "Da Qian Blade" Ao Donglai. One