Dao Ancestor Hongjun had indeed made no threatening move against the Dark Universe Time-Space Expeditionary Army in this Illusory Sea Maze region.
But that did not mean Old Man Tianmie was truly safe.
In fact, as Dao Ancestor Hongjun turned and departed, he had deliberately restrained the rule pressure and power ripples emanating from his body, not releasing even the slightest excess, for fear of alerting other hidden forces within this Dimensional Plane Battlefield.
However, the Dimensional Passage that had carried his Rule True Body across when he descended into this Dimensional Plane Battlefield did not close with his departure.
Even after Dao Ancestor Hongjun's figure had completely vanished into the distance, faint wisps of chaotic aura, mixed with an incomparably profound Power of Rules of bewilderment capable of devouring all consciousness, continued to slowly seep from this Cross-Dimensional Channel. Moreover, that aura was intensifying at a rate visible to the naked eye.
Yet high-level strong practitioners of the Dark Universe Time-Space such as Old Man Tianmie had all their attention fixed on Dao Ancestor Hongjun's increasingly distant aura. Their hearts were full of bewilderment and relief over the Dao Ancestor's departure, and they had not noticed at all that the Dimensional Passage opened when the Dao Ancestor descended was quietly showing an increasingly strange tendency to expand.
However, Old Man Tianmie and the others' carelessness did not last long.
Before Dao Ancestor Hongjun's aura had even completely left the vicinity of the Rule Nodes garrisoned by this Dark Universe Time-Space Main Legion, a thunderous boom that shook the universe—far more startling than when the Dao Ancestor had descended—erupted violently from the Cross-Dimensional Channel he had passed through, along with the faintly suppressed roar of a giant beast, powerful enough to tear apart dimensional barriers.
Only then did Old Man