The instant the enormous, pitch-black hand appeared in the sky, nearly a hundred rainbows of Dao Rhyme above the firmament dimmed.
The dark hand that had gripped Mingxi Sage slowly opened, but Mingxi Sage's figure was already nowhere to be seen in its palm.
Only scattered spiritual energy of heaven and earth drifted out of that hand formed entirely of darkness.
The True Purity Realm Sages who had intended to vie for Heaven and Earth Authority all paused for a moment.
That was Mingxi Sage, after all.
Among the many True Purity Realm cultivators of the Heaven-Stabilizing Continent, Mingxi Sage's strength undoubtedly ranked in the top ten.
Yet that great hand had crushed Mingxi Sage into spiritual energy of heaven and earth, without the slightest chance to fight back...
The sight undoubtedly made the many Sages present shrink back a little.
For a moment, no one dared continue toward Heaven and Earth Authority.
Then another enormous fissure appeared out of thin air.
A second hand formed of darkness reached out of the fissure, followed immediately by a third and a fourth.
Then came ten, a hundred, a thousand...
Countless great hands formed of darkness poured out of the pitch-black fissures in the sky, ceaselessly tearing at the firmament and pulling the fissures of the Space-time Fault wider and wider.
The canopy of heaven cracked. Innumerable pitch-black fractures began to spread, making the Heaven and Earth Laws of the Heaven-Stabilizing Continent groan beneath the unbearable burden.
At that moment, the True Purity Realm cultivators still lingering in the sky, who had once left the Heaven-Stabilizing Continent to guard the Great Dao Boundary Stele, clearly realized something as well.
"...It's the Outer Dao."
One Sage spoke in a trembling voice, filled with disbelief and terror:
"How is this possible? How could the