At last, silence fell again. Even the ancient road had dimmed, nearly losing its luster.
Farther ahead was even darker. The occasional shattered stars had vanished as well, leaving only emptiness and cold.
This road seemed ever longer and quieter, with no other sound remaining.
"Hmm?"
Xuantian was startled. He seemed to have reached the end of the road—it had been severed in the middle. The stone path ended here, with darkness in between and another stretch of road on the far side.
Xuantian stopped here and looked across, but it was too distant and obscure to see clearly.
Should he continue onward? He fell silent.
Whoosh!
He took out a bone artifact, one of the many spoils he had obtained. It was a True God artifact. He sent it flying across the broken road.
Crack!
Bloody light emerged from the Void and shattered the bone artifact, destroying it on the spot and turning it into a cloud of white powder.
So sinister? Xuantian's heart tightened. Dao laws appeared in his heavenly eye as he swept his gaze ahead.
Carefully, he drew out the Void Battle Halberd and held it in his hand, extending it beyond the broken road. Sure enough, bloody light came flying again, striking the halberd with a clanging sound as sparks flew everywhere.
Having gauged its approximate power, he leaped into the air the next instant, crossing the broken road toward the opposite bank.
Boom!
This was no less than a heavenly tribulation. Waves of bloody light surged forth, even interwoven with black lightning that continuously struck him from the Void.
The gap was not very wide, yet Shi Hao encountered fierce resistance. It took him an entire hour to cross, leaving his heart greatly shaken.
His blood and qi churned, blood trickling from the corner