Eastern Heavenly Lord let out a long breath. Ten days and ten nights would ordinarily have been no more than the flick of a finger to him, yet presiding over this sacrificial ritual for those ten days and nights had felt as long as millions, tens of millions of years. Every minute and every second had felt like a year; every moment had been torment.
That was because he had previously underestimated the difficulty of sacrificing a Heavenly Dao. The difficulty was beyond the imagination of ordinary people. He had not been adequately prepared, so every minute and second afterward had been sustained by sheer force of will. He had even begun to wonder what would happen if he failed to complete it.
That was not impossible. If he collapsed before the Martial Dao Era swallowed the Geng Metal Era, the consequences would be simply unthinkable.
If the freed Heavenly Dao of the Geng Metal Era turned against them, the Martial Dao Era's army would likely be finished. Even the several Heavenly Lords might not all be able to retreat unscathed.
Heaven and earth were splitting apart. Unlike the scene of heaven collapsing and earth cracking that Ye Xiwen had caused when he destroyed the earth veins, this was genuine, total collapse. Without the Heavenly Dao, heaven and earth began to fracture madly. Space cracked apart inch by inch; even space itself was collapsing. Mountains and rivers, tsunamis, heaven and earth, stars—everything was breaking apart inch by inch.
Under such circumstances, ordinary living beings simply could not survive. Eastern Heavenly Lord promptly gave the order for the Martial Dao Era's army to withdraw from the Geng Metal Great World.
The Geng Metal Great World was about to collapse completely, and no living creature could survive in such conditions.
Ye Xiwen,