Zhou Xuan slowly opened his eyes above the ruins of the Immortal-Burying Abyss.
The mountains, rivers, and vegetation of Central Province were no longer reflected in his dark-gold pupils. Instead, they held a bizarre, kaleidoscopic sea of chaos.
Shattered law fragments drifted everywhere, while turbulent energy surged against Central Province's newly formed World Crystal Wall.
This was the void of a higher dimension.
Zhou Xuan's divine sense spread out in an instant, extending beyond the Crystal Wall.
He could clearly sense more than one malicious gaze lurking in the depths of this seemingly lifeless sea.
Cold, greedy, hungry.
They exuded coldness and greed, seemingly searching for prey.
"Pavilion Master!"
Ji Chen's terrified voice came from below, interrupting Zhou Xuan's probing.
He and Old Ancestor Xuanming sat cross-legged on the ground, with a luminous diagram formed from the power of the world's origin source floating before them. It depicted Central Province's core structure.
An extremely fine crack stubbornly occupied the very center of the diagram, refusing to heal.
Wisps of a unique aura mingling creation and destruction continually leaked out of that wound.
It was the permanent injury left by Zhou Xuan's violent Dao integration.
Sweat streamed down Old Ancestor Xuanming's deathly pale, plump face. He pointed at the crack, his voice trembling.
"Master... our, our Central Province is leaking! We can't plug this hole at all!"
To higher-dimensional void creatures, this aura held an immensely powerful attraction.
Before his words had faded—
Boom!
The entire Central Province Continent shuddered violently.
It had suffered a tremendous impact.
Old Ancestor Cangwu and the others paled and immediately rose into the air, gazing warily beyond the Firmament.
A massive shadow formed from pure void energy had appeared in the sea of chaos outside the Crystal Wall, pressing against Central Province's World Crystal Wall.