The world-destroying giant hand condensed from Great Dao Laws carried an intent enough to drive every living being in the Primordial World to despair as it slowly descended.
Yuanshi Tianzun's fury was the fury of the Heavenly Dao.
When a Saint grew angry, heaven and earth overturned, and all things returned to ruin!
The Sect of Elucidation immortals wore savage, delighted smiles, as if they could already see that madman and the entire Three Immortal Islands reduced to dust.
However, just as the giant hand was about to touch the Three Immortal Islands—
Buzz—
A sword cry rang out.
Clear and soaring, as though it had existed since the dawn of time, that sword cry suddenly echoed through the nine heavens and ten lands.
Immediately afterward, an indescribably sharp sword aura shot into the sky from Golden Ao Island in the deepest reaches of the East Sea!
It was neither light nor energy.
It was the embodiment of the four ultimate killing concepts: "Execution," "Slaughter," "Trapping," and "Extinction." It was an unrivaled edge that severed past, present, and future, destroying all Karma and Destiny!
The instant that sword aura appeared, time across the entire Primordial World seemed to freeze for a moment.
Ignoring the distance of space, it appeared directly beneath that heaven-supporting giant hand and struck precisely at its wrist!
There was no earth-shattering explosion, nor any world-destroying energy storm.
The instant the two collided, there was only an incomparably muffled boom.
"Boom!"
That Saint's giant hand, woven from countless Great Dao Laws and capable of flattening the East Sea, suddenly halted ten thousand zhang above the Three Immortal Islands. It could not press down another inch!
A tiny crack quietly appeared at the wrist where the sword aura had struck.
Then, like a spiderweb, that crack spread madly across the entire giant hand!
The chains of order forming the giant hand let out wails of unbearable strain as they snapped apart inch by inch!
The smiles on the Sect of Elucidation immortals' faces froze completely.
Daoist Burning Lamp's eyes nearly popped out of their sockets. His mouth hung wide enough to fit a fist, his face filled with the expression of someone who had seen a ghost.
It... it was blocked?
Their sect master's furious strike had actually been blocked?!
Just as their minds reeled and their Dao hearts nearly collapsed, a bold and uninhibited voice, carrying three parts mockery and seven parts dominance, resounded beside every living being's ears like rolling heavenly thunder.
"Yuanshi, your disciples were inferior in skill. They deserved to die!"
"You are a dignified Heavenly Dao Sage, yet you shamelessly attacked a junior. Aren't you afraid the myriad races of the Primordial World will laugh their teeth out if word gets out?"
The voice came from Golden Ao Island, from the Interception Sect's leader, Sage Tongtian!
The instant his words fell, the giant hand beyond the Thirty-three Heavens, already covered in cracks, shuddered violently before collapsing with a thunderous crash and scattering into rain-like light.
At the same time, another equally supreme but razor-sharp and incomparably domineering Saintly intent rose from Golden Ao Island, fearlessly meeting the furious intent from Kunlun Mountain!
"Tongtian! You dare stop me?!"
Yuanshi Tianzun's icy voice contained fury enough to freeze space and time.
"And what if I do?" Tongtian's voice was filled with disdain. "If you have the guts, come to Golden Ao Island and fight me! What kind of hero bullies a junior here?"
Rumble, rumble, rumble!
The intents of the two Saints clashed fiercely Above the Nine Heavens.
In an instant, the heavens seemed to split in two.
On one side, golden light blazed in every direction and immortal music rang out. Boundless Jade Pure Immortal Light transformed into Myriad Heavens Auspicious Clouds and ten thousand golden lamps.
On the other, purple qi shot into the sky, sword intent ran rampant, and hundreds of millions of Immortal Execution Sword auras tore apart the void, evolving Earth, Water, Fire, and Wind.
Two utterly different Great Dao Laws collided, annihilated, and regenerated wildly above the East Sea, producing endless terrifying phenomena.
At times, stars fell. At times, the void shattered. At times, the Great Dao wailed. At times, bloody rain poured down.
The entire East Sea, and even nearly half the Primordial World, trembled beneath the fury of the two Saints.
Every Great Being watching this place turned pale in horror and hurriedly withdrew their divine senses, afraid that even a trace of the leaking Saintly Dao rhythm would reach them and condemn them to Death and Dao Dissipation.
Yet, at the center of this apocalyptic scene—
At the eye of the storm where the two Saintly intents confronted each other, Lin Feng stood with his hands behind his back, his robes fluttering and black hair flying.
The Saintly pressure that would terrify even a Quasi-Saint felt like nothing more than a breeze brushing his face.
There was not the slightest tension or solemnity on his face. Instead, he wore a faint expression of someone watching a show.
Behind him stood the peerlessly beautiful immortal maidens, Qiong Xiao and Bi Xiao.
The fear and despair in their beautiful eyes had long vanished, replaced by shock, admiration, and a sense of security that rose from the depths of their souls.
If the heavens collapsed, the young master would hold them up.
If a Saint acted, the young master would block them.
There was even another Saint willing to turn against his fellow disciple just to protect him!
Through all manner of lingering secret arts, this scene was clearly reflected in the eyes of countless Great Beings throughout the Primordial World.
However.
Deep in the North Sea, inside the Demon Master Palace, Ancestor Kunpeng abruptly rose from his meditation cushion, disbelief written all over his face.
"Just who... is this boy?!"
One man had brought two Heavenly Dao Sages into direct confrontation. Had such treatment ever existed since Heaven and Earth Creation?
In the Blood Sea, the twin swords Yuantu and Abi in Asura Sect Master Styx's hands trembled wildly, as though yearning for the supreme sword intent Above the Nine Heavens, yet also fearing something.
"Tongtian of the Interception Sect actually tore all pretense with Yuanshi Tianzun for an outsider... Interesting. Truly interesting..."
Inside Wuzhuang Temple, Zhen Yuanzi's hand, which had been stroking his long beard, froze in midair. Looking at the blue-robed figure in the water mirror and the two stunning immortal maidens behind him, his expression became incomparably complicated.
"Aren't those Qiong Xiao and Bi Xiao of the Three Immortal Maidens from the Interception Sect? They... are actually standing behind that man with such respectful demeanors, like servant girls?"
This discovery shocked him even more than the confrontation between two Saints!
The Three Immortal Maidens were Sect Master Tongtian's most favored disciples. They had always been proud and arrogant. When had they ever treated anyone with such respect?
For a time, every notable figure in the Primordial World went mad.
Their divine senses communicated frantically, every thought filled with shock and jealousy.
"Am I seeing things? Two Saints are fighting to the death over him, and Qiong Xiao and Bi Xiao are standing behind him as servants? Even the Dao Ancestor didn't have such absurd pomp back then, did he?"
"This is more than pomp! He has pushed prestige and grandeur to the very peak of the Primordial World! I've cultivated bitterly for several epochs and haven't even touched a female immortal's hand. Why does he get this?!"
"The key is that he killed a Chan Sect Golden Immortal. Yuanshi Tianzun wants to kill him, but Sect Master Tongtian is willing to fight to the death to protect him... What does that mean? It means Sect Master Tongtian considers this man more valuable than his brotherhood with Yuanshi Tianzun, even more important than the safety of the entire Interception Sect!"
"Hiss—! Terrifying indeed! Just who stands behind this boy?"
Countless Great Beings were so envious their eyes turned red, so jealous that their Dao hearts twisted.
With one body, he stirred two Saints and set heaven and earth's winds and clouds in motion.
And behind him stood two peerless beauties at his side.
Such bearing, such treatment—this was the ultimate dream of every male cultivator in the Primordial World!
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