Shi Ritian, the Martial Ancestor, Ye Fan, and Chu Luoli were weaving through the collapsing mountains and rivers.
Using the power of their avatars, they protected the surviving beings and the foundations of origin amid the cracks of the Tribulation, preparing for the final detonation of Mountain and Sea Realm's immeasurable Tribulation.
Yet the Sanqing and the Twelve Ancestral Witches suddenly shifted their attention away from the Mountain and Sea Realm.
Taiqing sat upon a Cushion, with a bright mirror condensed from Xuanhuang qi floating before him.
What the mirror reflected was not the battlefield of the Mountain and Sea Realm, but the veins of the Great Desolation Four Extremes Great Array and the flow of spiritual energy through the earth veins.
His gaze lingered over those wandering threads of energy for a moment, his brow faintly furrowing.
"Something is wrong." Taiqing suddenly spoke, his voice calm yet carrying a rare gravity.
"The growth of power within the Heavenly Dao Origin Space far exceeds the total amount that the Tribulations of the Mountain and Sea Realm and the Earth Immortal Realm could provide."
Yuqing Yuanshi and Shangqing Lingbao looked toward him at the same time.
Houtu among the Twelve Ancestral Witches also slightly turned her gaze. As the ruler of the Earthly Dao, she possessed a keener perception of the flow of Causality than the Sanqing.
"Sister Houtu, what did you sense?" Taiqing asked.
Houtu closed her eyes for a moment. When she opened them again, a grave earthen-yellow radiance had appeared within them.
"Within the veins of the Earthly Dao, a stream of anomalous Causality is flowing back from the depths of Chaos into the Heavenly Dao Origin.
"That power flows slowly, yet its volume is immense, and it is exceptionally well concealed.
"If the Earthly Dao itself were