"What... what happened?"
"Why did the sky suddenly turn dark?"
"Not right, look at the sky!"
"What happened? Why has the sky split open with such a huge crack?"
"Could something bad be about to happen?"
"The... end of the world?"
In city after city, on dangerous roads wherever humans dwelled,
everyone who noticed the strange phenomenon in heaven and earth looked up at the sky with terror written across their faces, despair continually surfacing upon every face.
The once-clear sky had suddenly turned pitch-black.
Yet at the heart of that endless darkness, a crack had appeared, as though lightning had torn it open.
But this crack had not been caused by the lightning's glare. It was a genuine rift in the sky, carrying the same terror as if some giant were about to tear heaven and earth in two.
As though unease itself could spread, it passed farther and farther.
Heart Cultivation City.
Quiet chamber.
A gentle, refined woman sat cross-legged on a meditation cushion with her eyes closed.
Not a trace of cultivation aura emanated from her body, nor had she used her divine sense, yet it was as though she could see through the roof and glimpse the phenomenon unfolding in the sky at a glance.
"Heaven and earth have reached initial completion. This is the phenomenon of someone completing the first transformation of heaven and earth."
"When did our Ruthless Dynasty produce a World Lord? And one capable of cultivating a small world to such a degree, yet never discovered by the outside world?"
"The Demonic Cultivation Territory? The Asura Race?"
"No!"
"Though the overall strength of those two factions is not weak, they have no passage out of the Ruthless Dynasty. It is even more impossible for them to obtain a small world."
"Not them,