The moment Lu Yang appeared and spoke, Tianjing City turned black and white, and an indescribable ripple spread in all directions.
Wherever the ripple passed, all ten directions were annihilated.
Buildings vanished. Pedestrians vanished. Everything seemed as though it had never existed. Whether you were a beggar by the roadside or a Martial Dao Celestial, all were treated alike!
"How could this be!?"
A Martial Dao Celestial cried out in terror, unable to accept it.
Yet no matter how they reacted—whether they fled, stood dazed, or became hysterical—they could only silently dissipate within that ripple.
The sole exception was the "Sage-Heart Scholar," Wang Boyuan. This peerless genius who had pioneered the fourth step of Martial Dao was unexpectedly calm. He merely gazed up at the sky, a trace of relief appearing on his face. "Fate-Gazing Heaven-Observation... Heh. How could a frog at the bottom of a well speak of gazing upon Fortune, let alone observing Heaven?"
As early as when he broke through to the Celestial realm, Wang Boyuan had discovered that something was wrong.
Wang Boyuan had created the Three-Talents Fate-Gazing Technique, using humanity to calculate Heaven. Yet when he exhausted all the knowledge of his life to peer into Heaven and Earth, a tremendous anomaly arose.
For he had seen that Heaven and Earth were incomplete!
Though exquisite, they were not self-consistent, like a carefully crafted counterfeit!
For a time, he believed he had calculated wrongly, that the Fate Gazing Technique was incomplete. Yet no matter how many times he recalculated, the result never changed.
Could it truly be that Heaven and Earth were incomplete, and the mortal world merely a dream?
From then on, the once elegant and dashing "Sage-Heart Scholar," with feather fan and silk headscarf, became a slovenly man who drank all day and squandered