Zhou Ming's Final Sermon, a Heaven-Sized Opportunity!...
Chaos did not count the years.
Within Pangu Hall, the quiet chamber at its deepest point had lain silent for who knew how many Eons.
Today, for the first time, movement came from within.
Houtu, seated cross-legged inside the hall, opened her eyes without the slightest warning.
She looked toward that tightly shut stone door. An extremely faint fluctuation, yet one that seemed able to pierce through all ages, was coming from behind it.
At first, that fluctuation was only ripples, but in the blink of an eye, it became a vast Dao Rhyme that swept through the entirety of Pangu Hall.
This Dao Rhyme was no longer simply tyrannical, no longer a blade with its edge fully bared, but round and seamless, returning to one; it was the silence at the end of all dharmas, and also the origin from which all Daos first opened.
Houtu rose and stood quietly before the door.
At last, that fluctuation, powerful enough to make even Chaos submit, vanished without a trace in an instant, as though it had never appeared.
Creak—
The heavy stone door opened inward without a sound.
A figure walked out from within.
It was still that calm, unruffled face, looking no different from before he entered seclusion.
But Houtu knew it was different.
Houtu felt that what she faced was an entire expanse of Chaos, was the endless Great Dao itself.
Standing there, he was the Dao.
Houtu rose and went forward to meet him.
"Elder Brother."
"You broke through?" Houtu's voice carried a trace of tension even she herself had not noticed.
Zhou Ming looked at her, those deep eyes harder to see through than Chaos itself.
He nodded.
"I broke through."
"Hunyuan Infinite Grand Unity Golden Immortal, peak."
Houtu's