Dao Ancestor Hongjun's speed was beyond imagination, like an arrow loosed from the string. A faint halo of primordial chaos rules coiled around his whole body, almost ignoring the obstruction of the space-time barriers.
When, in a single instant, he broke through the tangled energy turbulence of the battlefield and plunged straight into the cross-dimensional plane passage at the rear of the time-space camp, the one emanating an aura of chaos, the entire starry sky battlefield fell into a brief, deathly silence.
It was not only the Evil Spirit King and Wuzhuo, the two Level-12 Peak Existences locked in fierce battle with him, whose savage, vicious expressions froze in an instant. Even all the other High-Level Strong Practitioners of the Evil Swamp Time-Space camp on the surrounding battlefield, who had been watching this Peak Duel closely, now stood rigid in place, their faces filled with stunned expressions and disbelief written in their eyes—no one had expected Dao Ancestor Hongjun to suddenly turn and rush toward their own camp's dimensional passage while the battle was at its height.
But after that brief shock and frozen pause, the first to react was none other than the Evil Spirit King.
As a Level-12 Peak Strong Practitioner, he could be considered, among those present, the powerful being closest to the Level-13 Realm aside from Dao Ancestor Hongjun, who was currently undergoing transformation.
The Evil Spirit King thoughtfully glanced at the churning Rule Thunderclouds still lingering across the surrounding starry sky battlefield. The terrifying Power of Rules contained within those thunderclouds was enough to make one's heart tremble even across distant star domains.
Finally, he took one deep look at the stretch of Starry Sky Battlefield where Saine, piloting the Mechanical God Rule True Body, was locked in battle with the Evil Swamp Time-Space Strong