It happened just a few years after Great Emperor Gouchen dissolved into the Dao.
An earth-shaking roar erupted from the Cosmic Frontier, its thunder rolling through the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths. Even the Big Dipper Star Domain could faintly hear it.
The chaos energy was forcibly torn apart. Two immense forbidden zones smashed through the frontier star domains and descended directly into the starry universe.
One was an ancient, floating immortal mausoleum, steeped in deathly stillness. Several great tombs stood like small hills, while ancient stone steles dozens of yards tall marked its boundaries. Their faces bore two words in the ancient seal script of the Mythological Era—"Immortal Mausoleum." The strokes were sharp as blades and swords, exuding a murderous solemnity that seemed capable of suppressing all ages.
The other was a boundless silver ocean. Dao imprints left behind by departed souls over countless ages had condensed into the waters of reincarnation. Shattered starlight streamed down from the heavens, all of it pouring into the sea. From afar, it looked as though the entire Milky Way had been broken apart and emptied into it, billions of stellar fragments rising and sinking among the waves.
The auras of supreme beings at the pinnacle of the Dao surged into the heavens, crushing the surrounding galaxies.
The starry sky trembled, stars shifted, and even the sun seemed to dim.
Panic swept through the entire universe in an instant.
"What is that?"
"The heavens are falling! Great Emperor Gouchen has only just passed away!"
Cultivators throughout the great star domains looked up at the stars, trembling from head to toe.
The terror that rose from the depths of their souls robbed them of even the thought of fleeing.
Almost every living being in the universe had never witnessed anything like this.
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