A figure stepped out from the Abyss of Light. His features could not be seen, but with every step he took, countless golden veins instantly surfaced across the ground and streets of Shenjing, paved in hard jade.
Countless densely packed runes, brilliant as stars, spread and extended in every direction from beneath the figure's footsteps, appearing one after another.
The runes layered atop one another, interwoven into a net, and then...
Shattered!
The earth suddenly caved in, then split open with cracks. Amid the groaning of the crust, a massive rift appeared at the heart of Shenjing—black, unfathomably deep, and continuously extending.
The region where the Yuan Family had stood had now become the deepest part of the abyss. It had originally been pitch-black, but now a light shone from its very depths.
That was a breach in the ley lines, and also one of the foundations through which the Da Chen Holy Ancestor's Divine Sense had once connected the Three Realms during the Xuantian Ji. Beneath it lay not an endlessly deep earth, but...
The netherworld!
Now, within the vast netherworld, that light brightened from dimness, drew near from afar, then transformed into a vast rushing torrent that surged skyward along the path of the rift, carrying a roar like a dragon's cry.
This flood of light was like a spring erupting from the depths of the earth, from the bottom of the netherworld. It shot straight into the heavens, pierced sky and earth, and linked the two together. It coiled and wound through the crimson canopy, stretching out countless branches like a web—or foliage.
Ley lines.
The dragon of the ley lines—the Ley Line Dragon Qi!
"Th-the Ley Line Array... has been broken!"
At the God-Slaying Platform, Yuan Chengjun's lips trembled at the sight. Though he had personally