In the core hall of the Return to Void Divine Court, hundreds of millions of light-years away, ten thousand lights had dimmed, and blood-red divine radiance flickered like the dying gasps of a mortally wounded beast.
The First Judge, who held supreme authority over the surveillance of the outer Endless Star Sea, sat upright upon a void throne forged from countless bones and Divine Metal. A venomous sneer had originally glinted in his clouded old eyes as he stared fixedly at the rippling Ancient Water Mirror before him. Within the mirror was the terrifying, sky-shrouding spectacle of the Nine Hells Return-to-Void Killing Array—hundreds of millions of Nirvana divine beams interwove into a net, while hundreds of millions of tons of heavy water formed a heaven-imprisoning death zone, trapping that green-robed figure firmly at its center. In the First Judge's view, this peerless killing array, which had gathered the lifelong origins of the Divine Court's nine great judges and consumed the accumulated foundations of countless Epochs, would leave even a Supreme Colossus of the same realm with only one ending if caught within it: to bleed out in hatred.
He had even already envisioned the gruesome sight of Chu Qing's soul and spirit being destroyed, his Eternal Dao Fruit forcibly stripped away by the array.
Yet in the next instant, a scene worthy of being recorded in the annals of endless Epochs froze into place.
Facing the Nine Hells Return-to-Void Killing Array, powerful enough to make even Half-Step Transcendents change color, Chu Qing, standing at the heart of the storm, did not have so much as a corner of his robes disturbed. His expression remained indifferent, as though he were watching an insignificant shadow-puppet show. Then, he slowly raised his right hand, brought his fingers together, and casually pointed at the