Zhou Jue raised his head, staring in Shen Xuanwei's direction with utter disbelief written across his face.
"Saint Zhou?"
Xiang Qi, standing nearby, had clearly noticed Zhou Jue's abnormality as well.
"Could it be that you..."
Standing amid the blank void of the Space-time Fault, the man in the black Daoist robe remained expressionless.
He merely met Zhou Jue's gaze. After a long while, he finally nodded.
"That's right."
"How dare you!"
Zhou Jue's eyes seemed ready to spew fire. His aura surged violently, and even the Great Dao Boundary Stele beneath his feet began to hum.
At last, he understood why Heavenly Monarch Qingluo's condition had suddenly worsened so rapidly in recent years.
It was because of this Shen Xuanwei before him!
"You actually dared to... Bury the Heavens!"
Zhou Jue's figure sprang forth in an instant, so fast it nearly broke through the limits of space and time. At a speed that even the Spiritual Sense of an Immortal Ascendant Realm cultivator could scarcely react to, he appeared before Shen Xuanwei.
Then he raised his fist and smashed it forward.
Even the Space-time Fault rippled in that instant, its patterns spreading like rings on water.
Bury the Heavens?
Xiang Qi, still standing atop the Great Dao Boundary Stele, froze as well. Then, as though she had realized something, an incredulous expression appeared on her face.
Though Xiang Qi had never wielded the authority of heaven and earth, she knew something of the Saint Three-Character Formula.
Bury the Heavens—those three words were, in a sense, an absolute taboo.
They meant that this realm would completely lose its protection, left for beings incomprehensible even to Saints and Heavenly Monarchs to devour heaven and earth into nothingness.
For example, the End Beast.
A legendary fifteenth-realm great demon that had existed since