True Lord Red Fire's Great Dao had been annihilated.
The news swept like an unstoppable hurricane through every corner of the Hongmeng Universe in just a few hundred years.
For a time, the entire Hongmeng Universe fell speechless.
The last time someone in the Da Luo True Realm had suffered annihilation of their Great Dao was during the transition of the previous epoch.
Across countless ages, clashes between Da Luo True Realm cultivators had occurred from time to time, but at worst, they had suffered grievous injuries, severe damage to their origin, or harm to their Dao foundations.
A tragedy like this, in which a living expert at the peak of the Fusion Dao Realm had his Great Dao ground out of existence, was unheard of.
Overnight, every Da Luo True Realm cultivator still hunting down isolated cultivators from the Abyssal Sea Divine Hub stopped in their tracks, without exception.
For a time, the once-seething Hongmeng Universe became eerily quiet.
The Fusion Dao Realm cultivators of the Abyssal Sea Divine Hub could finally breathe a sigh of relief.
They emerged from their hiding places and headed toward the sanctuaries of Jiemie and his four companions to regroup.
Jiemie's sanctuary.
Inside the great hall, the atmosphere was somewhat heavy.
True Lord Qingmu's and True Lord Xuanshui's injuries had stabilized.
Yet neither they nor the dozens of fellow cultivators who had escaped back by sheer luck showed any joy at surviving the ordeal. Instead, their faces held a trace of worry.
"Dao brother, did we go too far this time?"
Kongxuan looked at Jiemie in the seat of honor and asked quietly.
Annihilating True Lord Red Fire's Great Dao had intimidated everyone, but it also meant they had torn away all pretense of civility with the native cultivators of the entire