Suppressed or not, that wisp of Nothingness had not died.
It hid inside the stopper, slowly gnawing away at the very thing that confined it.
It had been gnawing for tens of thousands of years.
If it was allowed to keep going—
Zhou Xuan dared not follow that thought any further.
He stopped hesitating and pressed his palm firmly against the primordial stone.
Taiyi Divine Power poured into the stone through his palm.
He held nothing back. Though this wisp of Black Qi was thin, it was Nothingness, something even an Immortal Emperor could not sever.
Zhou Xuan knew full well that he could not suppress it without a ruthless hand.
The purest Taiyi Divine Power turned into a golden stream, burrowing into the primordial stone through its cracks.
The moment they touched, the wisp of Black Qi reacted.
Its pulsing suddenly accelerated.
Once, then again, each beat more frantic than the last.
The Black Qi that had lurked deep within the cracks began spreading outward along them, trying to escape the pursuing golden stream.
Zhou Xuan watched its movements, sending the golden stream after it.
When the Black Qi went left, the golden stream blocked the left. When it went right, the golden stream sealed the right.
The wisp of Black Qi darted madly through the primordial stone, darkening the stone wherever it passed. But the golden stream pursued it even more closely, cutting off its escape routes one by one.
Zhou Xuan could feel his Divine Power draining rapidly.
This wisp of Black Qi was far too cunning. It refused to confront him head-on.
It fled whenever it touched the golden stream, transforming a patch of stone each time it escaped. Through that transformation, it seemed to grow a little stronger.
"Stop running," Zhou Xuan said through gritted