Zhao Xing stepped into the heart of the Primordial Beginning Realm, breaking the stillness of the standoff between Gu Xiao and the Great Emperor. The Great Emperor laughed as though he had been waiting for this moment for ages.
Gu Xiao's expression did not change, though he unconsciously raised the staff in his hand a little higher.
One glance at the hall told Zhao Xing that although the Great Emperor's energy remained immense, he had fallen behind.
His origin was still shrouded in Gu Xiao's Twelve Divine Aspects, which were drawing it out strand by strand.
There was no time to think. Zhao Xing drove his divine body to its limit, strode past Gu Xiao, and forced his way into the domains of both mighty figures. He hurried to the Red Star Great Emperor's side and placed a hand on his shoulder.
Those few steps looked unremarkable, yet they finally brought a flicker of life to Gu Xiao's statue-still face.
Rather than seize the chance to attack, Zhao Xing tried to heal the Great Emperor with the origin of his divine power.
The Red Star Great Emperor turned his head slightly. "Zhao Xing, don't heal me. Join forces with me and take down this old bastard first."
Zhao Xing did not agree at once. The instant he touched the Great Emperor's divine body, he had discovered that its divine power origin was gravely injured, shattered into several pieces.
By all rights, he should have been dying. But the Great Emperor was a Supreme Dao Master, whose attained standing was a level higher, so his origin could still stubbornly repair itself.
Yet Gu Xiao's Time God Power origin had appeared inside the Great Emperor like a sun, relentlessly corroding and piercing his origin.
Its standing was a notch lower, but it