The Dao Contention Between the Time and Space Palace Master and the Lord of Return to Void

The next instant, above the ruined body, a pair of eerie eyes buried in darkness and dormant for eons suddenly lit with a ghastly glow!

Two deep, icy gazes that seemed to see through the ages pierced the gloom and locked onto Xuan Qing as he stepped forward.

Dead silence. A searching look. A heavy, deliberate scrutiny.

After a brief pause, a hoarse, grating voice emerged from deep within the enormous mouth. It sounded like rusted iron scraping together, ancient beyond measure and laden with the weight of countless years and cold suspicion.

"You... have been to Return to Void?"

The moment the words fell, the eerie eyes blazed brighter. They fixed on Xuan Qing and swept over him from head to toe, inside and out, probing and assessing him.

Shock, doubt, and killing intent churned in their depths!

Then, without the slightest warning!

That enormous black mouth snapped open once more!

Boom—!

An ultimate devouring force, hundreds—no, thousands—of times more terrifying than when it had swallowed Dao Mie, erupted!

A black torrent of annihilating Return to Void power swept across the world, engulfing everything in sight and sealing off space. With a ferocity that could swallow the Dao, devour immortals, and erase the heavens, it bore straight down on Xuan Qing!

The sudden attack was swift, domineering, and vicious!

Xuan Qing's brows tightened, a sharp chill flashing through his eyes.

Just as he was about to unleash his Half-Step Great Dao Origin and meet the terrifying assault head-on—

To the left, deep within the shattered River of Time and Space, where broken currents ran through its collapse, another earth-shaking change erupted!

An ancient palace, cracked and weathered, its ruins scattered by the river's collapse, slowly flowed backward through countless fragments of time and the current of ages. Piece by