Beyond the southeastern region, the vast starry expanse stretching billions of miles fell utterly silent.
The aftershocks of the battle between the two Supremes had yet to fade. Shattered fragments of space-time hung motionless in the pitch-black void like frozen remnants of an epoch. The spiritual energy, Dao resonance, flow of time, and threads of karma throughout the entire starfield were forcibly locked down by the supreme power the three eternal Supremes abruptly unleashed.
This was the most terrifying confrontation in the old epoch's million-year history, the final, ultimate counterattack of the heavens' old order, the ancient Dao hegemony's all-out attempt to strangle a newborn variable.
Xuanzang, Canglun, and Huang Mie—the three eternal Supremes who guarded the heavens, who had endured four epochal transitions and stood at the pinnacle of cultivation for a million years—discarded all restraint, all checks and balances, and all maneuvering for the first time that day. They truly joined forces with their full strength, exhausting their origins and sacrificing their reserves, solely to slay a youth in the mid-stage Emperor Venerable realm and destroy a newly risen Great Dao.
On the left stood Canglun. Divine light of reincarnation blanketed heaven and earth, and billions of divine karmic chains crisscrossed into a celestial net of life and death that shrouded billions of starfields, locking space-time, trapping divine souls, disrupting the ages, and severing the path ahead.
On the right stood Xuanzang. Pitch-black heaven-burying demonic energy rolled in heavy waves as all the deathly power of four destroyed epochs awakened. Every wisp of his aura could freeze galaxies, extinguish myriad Daos, and bury Great Emperors.
Ahead stood Huang Mie. A dark-purple annihilation storm thundered in the air, its ultimate destructive power, beyond the laws of all Daos, condensed to its utmost limit. Without life or death, beginning or