The Nine Continents Seethe, and the World Debates

Everywhere across the Nine Continents, people watched this battle closely, and one terrifying piece of news after another kept arriving.

The Chronicle of Ages had been stolen.

The old king had returned.

The ancient monarch had already entered the area covered by the sacrificial tomb.

And before everyone's "eyeballs" returned to normal, they had all seen that final scene.

High in the sky.

An ancient monarch collided palm-to-palm with a Nine Grains palm reaching out from an ancient tomb, and immense waves of air surged into the heavens.

How could commoners and scholars at the bottom rung ever have witnessed battles between high-level cultivators?

This was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

Countless people stared in stunned silence as two supreme gods made their moves. Brilliant gold blossomed, and two galaxies slammed together in that instant, seemingly forming a boundless, dazzling starry sky shrouded in darkness.

That scene slowly froze upon their retinas, remaining there until their eyeballs returned to normal.

Quite a few people rubbed their recovered eyes.

"My eyes can see! I'm back to normal!"

On the streets, the blinded commoners gradually recovered, and the entire city boiled over. The unease and fear in their hearts lessened slightly, but an even greater wave of discussion erupted at once.

Every street and alley was buzzing with debate:

"A divine battle! Now that was a divine battle!"

"My heavens, what was that just now? Is that what an ancient God or Devil who's lived for countless tens of thousands of years looks like? He terrified me."

"This old man can barely walk despite being only sixty, and I'm already green with envy. Those creatures with such long lifespans really exist! Studying—so this is what it means to be a scholar! Studying can open the Three Flowers and set one on the path of