Underground, the Tomorrow Beast rose to its feet. The Sixth Night Pillar trembled, and all the cultivators sat cross-legged, stilling their minds and steadying their breaths.
The Tomorrow Beast crawled out of the ground and roared at the sky. Its immense power warped the void and surged toward the starry firmament. At the same time, the Southern Territory echoed with the roar of another Tomorrow Beast.
The Tomorrow Beast grabbed the earth, gripping its gray-brown hide. It looped around the enormous Sixth Night Pillar and braced it against its back. Its roars grew more and more ferocious. Boom, boom, boom! Each heartbeat shook the cosmic starfield, sending ripples through it. Those were the Tomorrow Beast's heartbeats. It was pulling back hard on the slingshot, tilting even the Sixth Night Pillar.
Qiu Nan Hong Ye remained unmoved, continuing to beat the drum. Even the Tomorrow Beast's heartbeat could not drown out its sound.
With a tremendous crash, the Sixth Night Pillar shot skyward under the immense force, vanishing from the Nine Heavens Universe in an instant like a fleeting meteor.
At the same time, two meteors streaked across the Southern Territory: the Second Night Pillar and the Fourth Night Pillar.
Across the Nine Heavens Universe, countless people looked up. The disappearance of the three meteors marked the beginning of the war. As for how the campaign against the Outer Universe would end, no one could say—not even with three Eternal Life Supremes.
There had been cases of armies returning in defeat, and more than once. Besides, there had originally been four Eternal Life Supremes.
Yu Jiuxiao's fate was to wage war, while Zhou Tiandi's was to make the soil of the Nine Heavens Universe ever more fertile for cultivation.
At the Eastern Region's border, where the Sixth Night Pillar had once