"Thud."
East-Subduing City trembled beneath the Immortal Court's ferocious assault. Even the chaos immortal artifact protecting the city shook.
Yet inside Emperor Yu's grand hall, the clashes of spells between the armies outside were not as loud as the sound of his body dropping helplessly onto the imperial throne. Everything his Mahayana domain had perceived in Sacred All-Encompassing Heaven left him murmuring as though in a dream, "It's only been a little over a thousand years... just a thousand years..."
He would rather have believed that everything he sensed in Sacred All-Encompassing Heaven was an illusion. But his domain would not deceive him. The aura of the Azure Cloud Li Family cultivators' Great Daos had even reached East-Subduing City!
Gear Sickle's figure appeared in the grand hall.
Emperor Yu really should not have allowed a subordinate to see him in such a sorry state, but Gear Sickle, likewise a Mahayana cultivator, was still reeling from the shock.
The two Mahayana cultivators looked at one another, speechless.
In the void.
Above Wanrong's Great Luo immortal art, which burned the world to ashes, Daochu's mortal-world body was descending toward Sacred All-Encompassing Heaven.
But his figure suddenly stopped.
He lowered his head. The instant every cultivator of the Azure Cloud Li Family ceased concealing themselves, even he, a Great Emperor, felt a moment of bewilderment flash through his eyes. Even as the roots of the Delusion-Breaking Divine Tree carried the Azure Cloud Li Family through Sacred All-Encompassing Heaven, sweeping everything aside like rotten wood, he hesitated. As the leader of Ancient Sage City, he should have protected it at any cost, yet he asked, "How can there be so many?"
Perhaps Wanrong's immortal art was simply too scorching, but all of Daochu's countless faces felt hot. He lowered his head, and cold