The instant those words fell, the Heavenly Dao moved.
He raised a hand and struck at the colossal Pangu True Body from across the vast distance.
No special Law empowered the strike. There was no elaborate technique.
Just raw power.
But that power was so immense that a vast expanse of Chaos collapsed beneath his palm.
Pangu True Body raised the Giant Axe's phantom to meet it.
The axe came crashing down!
That strike was just as simple.
It seemed to recreate the supreme might with which Pangu had once split heaven from earth.
The axe-light slammed into the enormous palm.
BOOM—!!!
A thunderous crash unlike anything before exploded through the eternally silent Chaos.
A storm of destructive force swept in every direction. Great swaths of chaotic energy vaporized in an instant, leaving behind a boundless expanse of absolute nothingness.
The impact forced Pangu True Body's massive frame back half a step.
The Heavenly Dao remained before Purple Firmament Palace, utterly unmoved.
The difference was clear.
"Do you see now?"
The Heavenly Dao's indifferent will reached them again, tinged with unmistakable mockery.
"This is absolute suppression by a higher realm."
"This is the power of a Hunyuan Infinite Grand Unity Golden Immortal."
"Half a step from the Great Dao."
"The realm closest to the Great Dao."
"It is on an entirely different level from a Hunyuan Grand Unity Golden Immortal."
"Even if you can recreate Pangu True Body, your own foundations are ultimately too weak."
Zhou Ming did not answer.
Pangu True Body raised the Giant Axe's phantom again. Axe-light soared upward, then cleaved toward the Heavenly Dao.
This strike was fiercer than the previous two. It carried the combined power of all thirteen, its edge imbued with the force of splitting heaven from earth as it descended upon the