Rumble! Rumble! Rumble!!!
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh—!
Thunderous roars rang out one after another, as though two colossal beings were colliding without cease. Wild winds howled, the earth split apart, and the entire Sea Market underwent an unprecedented, violent upheaval. At the edges of the region stretching thousands of miles, friction kindled a raging sea of fire that swept inward, painting an apocalyptic scene.
Looking beyond the Sea Market, one could see that it had risen above the sea of clouds, yet it was still climbing ceaselessly, heading straight for the sky.
Above the sea of clouds, the winds screaming past unexpectedly carried traces of incomparably sharp and mysterious aura. This was—Gang Qi!
This Gang Qi severed the void and enveloped the entire world. It circulated endlessly, inexhaustible and infinite, fierce and unyielding. It could easily pierce gold, split stone, shatter bones, and pulp flesh. It was a great barrier protecting the world, a formation crafted by Heaven and Earth themselves.
Yet since they had reached the Gang Qi layer, it meant that the Sea Market was no longer within the range between the earth and the neighboring sky. It had entered another extreme of Heaven and Earth—the Nine Heavens!
Legend had it that in Ancient Times, the heavens possessed thirty-three layers. One layer of gang winds, one layer of heaven; every heaven was at least equivalent to an entire world, inhabited by all kinds of living beings, even containing indescribable Dao Integration Ancient Gods.
They dwelled within the Thirty-Three Heavens, their lifespans nearly equal to Heaven and Earth. They stood alongside the Asuras of the Nine Netherworlds, true dragons and phoenixes, the Chaos Witch Clan, and others—and even governed the fates and authority of most living beings in the world. They could truly be called innate deities.
But during that