The Membership Has Expired? I Know How to Handle This!

The temperature in the great hall soared.

A needle formed from Chaos Fire hung in midair. Its tip was as fine as a hair, yet it seemed to bear the weight of countless Great Universes.

This was no ordinary flame.

It burned laws and causality. It could even grind the Path Severing traces that Fifth Step powerhouses took such pride in to ash, bit by bit.

Now, under Yang Yu's control, the fire needle pierced the exact center of the Charred Fragment.

"Crack, crack..."

At last, a small piece of the fragment's black shell peeled away—a shell even the laws of a Half-Step Ancient Illuminating expert had been unable to damage.

An ancient, boundless aura that seemed to belong to somewhere beyond the Hongmeng Ruins slowly seeped through the tiny crack.

The aura was not violent.

But its level was far too high.

Gu Shan and Xuan Jiu merely caught a trace of it from outside the hall, and the Fifth Step laws within them seemed to freeze. Their circulation slowed sharply.

Every muscle in Gu Shan's body tensed. A sheen of sweat sprang up on his bald head.

He touched his head without thinking and muttered under his breath, "Damn, what kind of terrifying weapon did the Boss open up? Why do my bones want to kneel just from catching a whiff?"

Xuan Jiu said nothing.

He silently tightened his grip on the Black Sword.

Its edge pointed down, but his sword intent had gathered to its limit.

At the slightest sign of trouble inside the hall, he would rush in.

Even though he knew his cultivation might not let him hold out for a single breath against that Charred Fragment.

Zhi Xing stood farther away, the Fate Star Mark between her brows flickering.

She tried to catch a