Xuandu's expression tightened slightly.
Houtu frowned deeply.
Hongjun looked at them, and in the depths of his eyes, which had remained indifferent for endless ages, light now blazed as fiercely as the sun.
"Xuandu, Houtu."
"Did you truly think I had no contingency plan?"
"The Heavenly Dao awakened who knew how many epochs before the Earth Dao and Human Dao. Did you truly think I had made no preparations at all?"
As his voice fell, he raised a hand, palm facing the sky.
From within that withered yet powerful hand, a streak of grey radiance shot into the heavens!
The light was faint at first, but in a single breath, it became like the first ray of dawn at the beginning of World Creation, abruptly illuminating the entire Sky Dome.
In an instant, the void for hundreds of millions of miles trembled within that light.
Xuandu's pupils contracted slightly.
He sensed it.
After soaring into the sky, that grey radiance disappeared into the depths of the Sky Dome.
It entered the place where the Heavenly Dao Origin lay within the Netherworld.
Then...
"Buzz!!!"
A massive rift suddenly tore open above the entire Great Wilderness.
Within the rift, a gigantic eye slowly opened.
Its iris was greyish white, while Three Thousand Dao Patterns circulated endlessly within its pupil.
Every Dao Pattern represented a Law Origin.
Every thread of light contained the supreme might of the Heavenly Dao.
The Heavenly Dao Eye had descended.
Xuandu's expression changed slightly.
Houtu's entire body trembled.
Chaos, Qiongqi, Taotie, and the Chaos Silver Python all raised their heads toward the sky.
Their blood-red eyes were filled with shock.
Within the ruins of Mount Sumeru.
Jieyin looked up at that gigantic eye.
"The Heavenly Dao Eye..."
He muttered in a hoarse voice.
"The Dao Ancestor... still had