Zhou Xuan stepped through the stone gate, his black robes fluttering in the currents of law surging out behind him. The Black-Gold Dao Fruit in his Dantian completed just one rotation, and the core region of the Immortal-Burying Abyss abruptly sank.
Emperor Jiang Wu, who stood guard outside the gate, was the first to pale.
The national fortune Dao fruit inside him suddenly stopped rotating.
Immediately afterward, the Immortal Court law branded on its surface lit up of its own accord, forcibly suppressing all his national fortune.
Emperor Jiang Wu's knees buckled, and he dropped to the ground on the spot.
Thud!
The Origin Return Alliance Leader could not hold out either.
The origin source of his purple-gold immortal vein had barely surged forth before the black-gold fluctuations radiating from Zhou Xuan forced it back into his Dao fruit.
The Alliance Leader grunted, bracing both hands against the ground, his forehead almost touching the stone slabs.
The Ancient Sword at Old Ancestor Cangwu's waist slid half an inch out of its sheath on its own.
Its ringing had barely begun before the entire sword was forced back into its sheath.
His shoulders plunged downward, and one knee slammed into the ground. His other leg held out for less than half a breath before it, too, buckled.
Old Ancestor Xuanming suffered the worst.
Sensing something wrong, his first instinct was to draw out his Cold-White Origin Source to shield his entire body. But the moment that power left his Dao fruit, the Immortal Court Mark inside him awakened in full.
A higher-ranked law bore down through his meridians.
Old Ancestor Xuanming slammed flat against the ground, his chest pressed against the stone slabs. He could not even lift his neck.
"Zhou Xuan!"
He forced the name out through gritted teeth.
"Fine,