The era reached its endgame, and the heavens split in two.
Half the sky sank into pitch-black darkness; the other half shone with radiant gold.
The ultimate collision between darkness and the righteous path erupted across billions of miles of the heavens. There was no respite, no probing exchange. From the instant battle began, it plunged straight into the deadliest killing ground in all eternity.
The [Eternal Fall Immortal-Devouring Demon Array], personally activated by Demon Emperor You Ye, was a Chaos-Grade forbidden array that now completely blanketed the airspace above Heavenly Passage Immortal City. Countless dark array patterns writhed, swelled, and intertwined like living demonic beasts. Every inch of space within the array brimmed with annihilation laws born of the chaos origin. Space and time inside fell into complete disorder. Shattered phantoms of the past, scenes of slaughter in the present, and visions of future destruction overlapped in layers. Countless righteous cultivators instantly felt their divine souls violently torn, their minds flooded with endless demonic whispers of downfall, destruction, and madness.
This was the terror of a chaos formation, something no ordinary array art across the heavens could rival. Formations laid by the world's Emperor Lords ultimately operated through the spiritual energy of the heavens, the laws of the era, and their own Dao foundations. They left traces to follow, methods to unravel, and weaknesses to exploit. But this chaos demon array directly rewrote the laws of the surrounding world. With dark annihilation as its central law, it forcibly stripped every living being within of the circulation of spiritual power, the flow of Dao resonance, and divine soul perception, suppressing, grinding away, and devouring all righteous power at its very root.
The instant the demon array fully activated, the Hongmeng spiritual energy above Heavenly Passage Immortal City stagnated, dried up,