Near the Outer Ruin's rift passage entrance, twenty or thirty towering figures stood in cold silence.
Most of these terrifying beings were Quasi-Saints from the Twelve Superior Clans, but among them were several gray-scaled, strange-whiskered Ruin gray spirits, as well as bizarre beings with human bodies and flower heads.
There was even an exceptionally towering, bloated figure far larger than the other Quasi-Saints, its entire body shrouded beneath an enormous gray Daoist robe that concealed its true face.
The gray spirits and the human-bodied, flower-headed beings must have been holy spirits native to the Ruin.
Buzz!
At that moment, three figures moved almost simultaneously.
Like lightning, they swept toward the rift passage, which had already expanded considerably.
Their movement drew the attention of the Quasi-Saint realm beings from the various clans, who turned in surprise.
"Yuan Jingzhong, Lou Luo, and Akshobhya Buddha—what are those three planning?"
"Could it be that they believe the time has come and are actually risking their true bodies to charge in...?"
At the sight, some beings could not help growing restless, though more chose to watch cautiously.
Let those three charge in first and test the limits of the Dao's might from that cosmos's origin!
The three towering figures reached the rift passage entrance almost at the same time.
Because their forms were far too immense, they drew in even more tribulation-force aura. In a single instant, the protective gray intent on their bodies was abruptly diminished by eighty or ninety percent!
Only a thin layer remained to sustain them. It looked perilously fragile, as though it might be "contaminated" by the tribulation-force aura at any moment and reduce their cultivation to nothing.
Yet with the "opportunity to ascend into the void" before them, Yuan Jingzhong, wielding a whisk, Lou Luo with his roc body