The door opened.
Gray light surged from the crack in the door like floodwaters bursting through a breached dam, sweeping across the entire Blood Sea Secret Realm.
The aura was ancient, remote, vast, and majestic, weighing upon everyone's hearts like an invisible mountain.
The Lord of the Netherworld and the Human Emperor Phantom faced each other across space. This was a duel between two beings separated by countless eras, spanning time and space. There were no ripples, yet that invisible pressure alone was enough to crack the bodies of Mythical Great Dao experts and force Emperor Venerables to their knees, unable to look directly at it.
The peak Mythical Great Dao Asura Race expert's face turned deathly pale, his legs weakened, and his Mythical Great Dao dimmed beneath the suppression of that aura.
The nine people behind Xue Hezi all took half a step back in unspoken unison. Even Xue Hezi's pupils contracted violently.
Even that old fossil who had severed his own cultivation down from the Creation Realm stumbled backward again and again, unable to approach.
Though he had once been in the Creation Realm, compared to the Human Emperor and the Lord of the Netherworld, the difference was still as vast as heaven and earth.
Hui Mei's Six Paths of Reincarnation spun wildly beneath the impact of that aura. The runes on the wheel blazed to their limit, as though worshipping, responding, and calling out.
Chu Tian stood where he was, utterly motionless.
At his brow, the Imperial Crown Mark erupted with golden radiance, gathering before him into a golden figure.
A projection of the Human Emperor's will.
It stood there, facing the opened door and the will awakening behind it.
Golden Imperial Dao Divine Radiance collided with gray Netherworld aura in the void, exploding into golden and