Kunlun Mountain, Jade Void Palace.
Yuanshi Tianzun, seated high above the Ninth Heaven and merged as one with the Heavenly Dao, had finally been truly enraged.
"Fellow Daoist, you have crossed the line."
Those five words descended from beyond the Thirty-three Heavens like the decrees of heaven itself, becoming the most fundamental order and laws of the Primordial World.
In an instant, countless golden chains of order materialized above Skeleton Mountain, weaving into a vast net that carried the supreme might to suppress eternity and bind all things as it descended upon Qin Feng.
The circulation of every rune resonated with the Heavenly Dao.
The tremor of every divine chain was enough to utterly crush a Quasi-Saint's Dao Fruit.
When a Saint was angered, words manifested into law.
This was the inviolable iron rule of Saints, the highest order of the Primordial World.
"Master!"
"Master has taken action!"
Yu Ding Zhenren, Cihang Daoren, and the others, who had already fallen into despair like lambs awaiting slaughter, erupted with incredulous delight the instant they heard that voice.
It was the ultimate exhilaration of being pulled from the deepest hell back into the Thirty-three Heavens in an instant.
"Hahaha! Demon, you're dead!"
"A Saint's decree has descended. Let's see how you can remain arrogant now!"
Puxian Zhenren trembled with excitement, his gaze upon Qin Feng filled with vicious delight and anticipation for revenge.
In their eyes, it was all over.
Beneath Saints, all were ants.
No matter how strong you were, could you be stronger than the Heavenly Dao?
In the void, Great Powers from every side, their souls shaken by fear, held their breath as their Spiritual Senses tensed to the limit.
A Saint had personally entered the fray!
This was an unprecedented event in countless epochs!
Everyone believed the outcome had been decided.
That mysterious man in azure robes would, in the next moment, be forced to his knees by the Saint's decree, his Primordial Spirit restrained and his cultivation sealed, paying the most painful price for his arrogance.
However.
At the very instant the golden net woven from laws and order was about to touch Qin Feng's body.
Qin Feng did not even raise an eyelid.
His Chaos Undying Body automatically released a thread of an almost imperceptible aura.
The Saint's pressure, enough to crush eternity and drive even Quasi-Saints into despair, landed on him like the gentlest spring breeze brushing across his face. It failed to stir even the corner of his robes.
When those golden chains of order came within three feet of his body, they melted away soundlessly like ice and snow beneath a blazing sun, breaking down into the most primordial Dao resonance and vanishing between heaven and earth.
Calm and unruffled.
It was as though nothing had happened.
The entire scene fell into a stillness more terrifying than death.
The wild delight on Yu Ding Zhenren and the others' faces froze there, making them look like crude clay figurines—ridiculous and pathetic.
Their eyes bulged wide, nearly popping from their sockets, as they stared fixedly at the azure-robed figure still standing with his hands behind his back, straight and tall as a pine.
With a buzz, their minds went completely blank.
This...
How was this possible?!
That was a Saint's decree! That was Master Yuanshi Tianzun's Words Manifested into Law!
How... how could he be completely unharmed?!
If everything Qin Feng had done before had overturned their understanding.
Then this scene had torn out their entire worldview, along with their souls, thrown it to the ground, and ground it into the finest dust beneath a heel!
Under the gazes of everyone present, as though they had seen a ghost—no, as though they were billions of times more horrified than if they had seen a ghost.
Qin Feng finally slowly raised his head, his gaze crossing endless void to look in the direction of Jade Void Palace on Kunlun Mountain.
A cold, mocking curve tugged at his lips.
"Crossed the line?"
His voice was not loud, yet it contained a higher-level "Chaos" Dao resonance that stood above the Heavenly Dao. It effortlessly tore apart every shackle of law, resounding clearly through the Three Realms and Six Paths before exploding within Yuanshi Tianzun's Jade Void Palace.
"Your Chan Sect disciples relied on their status as Saint's disciples to bully my friend first."
"The Twelve Golden Immortals shamelessly set up a grand formation here on my Skeleton Mountain and then besieged me."
Qin Feng's voice suddenly rose, like Chaos Divine Thunder from the Ninth Heaven, making the entire Primordial World hum and tremble!
"And now you tell me that I crossed the line?"
"Yuanshi!"
Boom!!!
The instant the name "Yuanshi" left Qin Feng's mouth, every living being in the Primordial World—from ordinary grass and trees to Grand Unity Golden Immortals—felt their Primordial Spirits tremble in unison!
Even the Heavenly Dao seemed to freeze for an instant!
He had directly spoken a Saint's name!
This was the most direct and naked provocation toward a Saint, toward the Heavenly Dao!
Within Fire Cloud Cave, Human Emperor Xuanyuan, Earth Emperor Shennong, and Heavenly Emperor Fuxi, the three Human Sovereigns, all rose from their seats at once, their faces filled with world-shattering shock and horror.
Madness!
This world had gone completely mad!
Inside Wuzhuang Temple, the Book of Earth slipped from Zhen Yuanzi's hand with a smack. Yet he did not notice at all, merely standing beside Ancestor Hong Yun with his mouth agape like two dried-up statues.
Within Northern Darkness Demon Master Palace, Kunpeng, who had only risen halfway, rolled his eyes, kicked his legs, and was so frightened by those two words that he fainted dead on the spot.
Yet that was not the end!
Qin Feng's cold voice rang through the clouds with an unquestionable declaration.
"Today's matter has only just begun!"
The instant his words fell, the "Chaos" Dao resonance from his mouth clashed directly with the "suppression" law left behind by Yuanshi Tianzun in the void!
There was no earth-shattering roar, no wave capable of destroying heaven and earth.
There was only the absolute crushing of a "higher level" over a "lower level"!
Yuanshi Tianzun's laws, which belonged to a Heavenly Dao Saint, were like paper before Qin Feng's Dao resonance, easily ripped to pieces!
This scene left every watching Great Power's soul reeling and thoughts frozen.
Only one thought remained in their minds.
His Dao stood above Saints! Above the Heavenly Dao!
Kunlun Mountain, Jade Void Palace, fell into deathly silence.
The supreme pressure that had blanketed the Primordial World retreated like the ebbing tide, silently and, somehow, with a trace of embarrassment.
There was no further sound.
Yuanshi Tianzun had backed down.
Like a plague, that thought spread madly through the hearts of every Great Power.
But this was not the end.
At the moment Qin Feng directly called out "Yuanshi," the other supreme beings of the Primordial World also turned their eyes toward him.
Shouyang Mountain, Eight Sceneries Palace.
The eternal, unmoving Eight Trigrams Furnace abruptly paused. On a meditation cushion, the Grand Pure Saint, who seemed fused with the Great Dao of inaction, slowly opened his eyes, a trace of astonishment unseen for countless ages flashing within them.
"A Dao... beyond Chaos?"
Wa Palace.
Nuwa, who had been teasing a nine-colored deer, paused slightly. A deep look of astonishment and curiosity appeared on her exquisite face.
"A living being capable of stepping beyond the Heavenly Dao... interesting."
In the west, Mount Sumeru.
For the first time, a bewildered expression appeared on Jieyin Daoren's eternally sorrowful face, while the radiance of the Twelve-Grade Golden Lotus of Merit beneath him dimmed for an instant.
Beside him, the Seven Treasures Wonderful Tree in Zhunti Daoren's hand cracked, brushing off a Bodhi Leaf as the smile on his face completely froze.
"Senior Brother, this man... has thrown fate into chaos and disrupted karma. He is the greatest variable in the rise of our Western sect...!"
Biyou Palace.
Myriad Immortals Paying Homage, sword qi piercing the heavens.
Tongtian Jiaozhu, seated at the head, was first stunned upon hearing that "Yuanshi," then suddenly slapped his throne and threw back his head in laughter.
"Hahahaha! Good! What a 'Yuanshi'! What a 'has only just begun'!"
The Immortal-Slaying Four Swords beneath his seat sensed their master's intent and let out waves of excited sword cries, their soaring sword intent nearly tearing apart the firmament.
"Magnificent! Utterly magnificent! At last, someone has emerged in this Primordial World who dares deny that old bastard Yuanshi face! He should be a friend of my Interception Sect!"
When Saints stirred their thoughts, heavenly secrets descended into chaos.
The entire Primordial World was thrown into a complete uproar by Qin Feng's single sentence.
Yet Skeleton Mountain, the center of the storm, sank into an eerie calm.
Qin Feng withdrew his gaze as though he had merely done something insignificant.
He looked once more at the Chan Sect Golden Immortals before him, who had long since been scared witless, and that playful smile returned to his lips.
The instant Yu Ding Zhenren and the others saw that smile, they all shuddered, their souls nearly flying away in terror.
Even a Saint's action could do nothing to him.
He had even forced the Saint back with a single sentence!
What... what exactly was this man's background?!
Who was he?
For a time, this became the greatest mystery hanging over the hearts of every Great Power in the Primordial World.
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