Several thousand years later, inside a Star Core cavern.
Hongchu rose to his feet, lightning crackling around him and scorching the cavern walls black.
He let out a long cry and punched forward. A thick lightning dragon circled the cavern once before slowly dispersing.
"That felt good!"
He felt an unprecedented ease within his body, and his face filled with delight.
Although his injuries had yet to heal completely, several months of recuperation, together with the strand of pure origin Zhou Ming had transferred to him, had restored him to seventy or eighty percent of his former condition.
Cang Xuan also slowly opened his eyes. His aura, too, had become considerably more condensed.
"That should do."
Zhou Ming stood up.
"Let's go."
The three left the Star Core where they had been hiding and silently melted into the boundless chaos.
Biluot Star Domain.
An utterly unremarkable, remote star domain in the Hongmeng Universe.
It contained over three hundred worlds of various sizes, and its strongest cultivator was merely a realm lord who had recently entered the Hunyuan Wuji Realm.
Ordinarily, everything here was calm and peaceful. Even the Chaos Bandits could not be bothered to visit.
Today, however, three uninvited guests arrived.
Heavenly Pivot World.
A medium-sized world in the Biluot Star Domain, neither particularly large nor particularly small.
Inside the Realm Lord's Hall, the Heavenly Pivot World Lord was cultivating with his eyes closed.
Suddenly, his spirit shuddered, and his eyes flew open.
Three figures had appeared in the hall at some unknown moment.
He had not even sensed how they had entered.
Horror seized the Heavenly Pivot World Lord, and he was about to raise the alarm.
An irresistible, terrifying pressure pinned him firmly in place, leaving him unable to move so much as a finger.