The moment his words fell.
The black-gold Dao Fruit in Zhou Xuan's dantian roared into motion.
He did not fully unleash the Dao Fruit, merely drawing out a wisp of its origin aura.
That wisp flowed through his meridians and emerged, hovering in the center of the stone chamber.
Pitch-black destruction turbid qi.
Emerald Creation Origin.
Two utterly opposite, fiercely repellent powers intertwined perfectly in midair.
There was no conflict whatsoever.
They joined head to tail, forming an endlessly regenerating closed loop of laws.
A terrifying pressure descended instantly.
This was not suppression through cultivation.
It was absolute domination at the level of life itself.
Old Ancestor Hunyuan's and Old Ancestor Wuji's legs buckled, and they dropped to their knees with a thud.
Both prostrated themselves without a shred of dignity, their heads pressed firmly against the Bluestone Floor.
Their bones crackled under the unbearable weight of that pressure.
But neither could spare a thought for the pain.
Both pairs of eyes were fixed on the closed loop of laws in midair.
Their eyes nearly bulged out of their sockets.
Old Ancestor Hunyuan trembled violently.
His primary cultivation method leaned toward destruction, and he had been stuck in the late Longevity Realm for three thousand years, unable to reach perfection.
As he gazed at that pitch-black destruction turbid qi, a thunderous boom erupted in his mind.
The flaw in his cultivation method that had plagued him for three thousand years actually showed signs of loosening at that moment!
Old Ancestor Wuji was even more excited, his entire face flushed red.
His lifespan was nearly exhausted, his blood and vitality in decline.
Yet a single breath of life force emanating from that Emerald Creation Origin made him feel his depleted dantian spring back to life.
"Is... is this the depth of