When the Nine Hells Return-to-Void Killing Array in Nine Hells Star-River Canyon—said to have gathered supreme origin blood essence—was casually pointed into nothingness by Chu Qing amid laughter and conversation, leaving the observing First Judge wounded and speechless on the spot, the Return to Void Divine Court's final core line of defense in the outer starfields utterly collapsed. Eternal Heavenly Palace's enormous violet-gold hull met no obstruction as it swept through the shattered canyon rifts with an invincible momentum capable of suppressing All Heavens and myriad worlds, bearing straight down upon the Return to Void Divine Court's true core mountain gate, hidden in the deepest reaches of the Wuwang Void.
Looking ahead, within that starry sky deathly shrouded in ultimate darkness and Netherworld mist, a vast palace complex towered high, built from countless pieces of Ancient Star Divine Metal and Return-to-Void Mystic Crystal. It floated silently at the center of Void Turbulence. This was the headquarters mountain gate of the Return to Void Divine Court, which had ruled the extraterritorial starry skies for endless ages and regarded low-dimensional life as mere grass and ants.
Yet at this moment, this once-overbearing high-dimensional Divine Hall had long since lost its former solemnity and calm. In their place were suffocating panic, chaos, and despair.
Within the core council hall, only six of the nine great judges who had once stood high above all else, controlling life, death, and reincarnation beyond the heavens, remained gathered together in utter disarray. The First Judge's face was pale as paper. The backlash from the shattering water mirror had not only gravely injured his divine soul, but had also left irreversible cracks in his Dao foundation. The other five judges wore terrified expressions, and the atmosphere in the hall was so oppressive that even the air seemed to