At the deepest point of the Abyss, that cold, evil sigh, steeped in endless deathly stillness, echoed through every inch of the Ancient Phoenix Ruins like a tangible curse.
"Alas..."
This was not merely a sound, but a Law of Nirvana that stood above all Daos. Wherever its sound waves passed, the void within a hundred thousand li crumbled inch by inch like ice struck by a heavy hammer, turning into the most primordial dust of Chaos. Hundreds of thousands of fleeing Supreme Heaven Allied Forces were struck by that terrifying pressure. Countless God Kings and Emperor Venerables trembled violently in midair as though struck by lightning, coughing up blood in unison.
Chu Tian stood in the void, his gaze cold as ice. The origin of Proving the Dao with Force within him circulated madly, weaving dark golden light across his body into an impregnable barrier that forcibly withstood the assault of that life-destroying power.
As the sigh faded, incomparably dense Jiemie Black Mist suddenly surged from the Abyssal fissure. Like a world-ending tsunami, it swept in, blotting out the sky and covering the earth. Everything it touched—broken Primordial Era meteorites, fallen warship wreckage, even the corpses of the Azure Heaven Clans—weathered away in an instant and vanished without a trace.
The Supreme Heaven Allied Forces, already thrown into disarray after Shen Wuji's dharma body had been blasted apart, now sank completely into frenzied despair. Every man was for himself, casting aside armor and weapons as they fled desperately toward the outskirts of the ruins like headless flies.
Shen Dao stood atop a battered golden main warship, his face twisted and his eyes filled with undisguised terror. He had witnessed the fall of his ancestor's dharma body with his own eyes, and now he saw the Abyssal upheaval that resembled