The Emperor-level powerhouses of the Holy Demon Continent were all shaken, their eyes fixed unblinkingly on the Origin Qi Cloud in the distance.
Ninefold Life Severing Realm—this was nothing short of a myth.
Yet they were witnessing the birth of that myth with their own eyes.
What the Emperor-level powerhouses did not know, however, was that Gu Yi was not undergoing the ninth Life Severing, but the seventh.
To trigger heaven and earth and condense an Origin Qi Cloud during the seventh Life Severing—
Even in the Divine Realm, not many geniuses could accomplish such a feat.
Origin Qi Clouds also had ranks. The lowest was a three-li Origin Qi Cloud, known as One Heaven Nine Severings.
At the highest level was the Thirty-Three Heavens Life Severing, where the Origin Qi Cloud could cover ninety-nine li in every direction. It represented the thirty-three minor universes of the Martial Extreme World.
The Origin Qi Cloud Gu Yi had triggered now covered precisely three li, making it One Heaven.
A One Heaven Origin Qi Cloud was nothing remarkable.
But Gu Yi was only undergoing the seventh Life Severing.
This three-li Origin Qi Cloud was the beginning of everything.
The Dao gave birth to One; One gave birth to Two; Two gave birth to Three; Three gave birth to all things!
In the Martial Extreme World, the number three contained great truths of the Dao.
Three was the beginning of all things and the foundation of the world. At the birth of the universe, three World Seeds had been left behind—the embryonic forms of worlds—which evolved into the three great divine artifacts of Essence, Qi, Spirit.
After the Origin Qi Cloud appeared, Gu Yi's flesh-and-blood cells and soul fragments, which had begun to condense and reassemble, all surged into it.
There, Heaven and