A chill shot from the soles of Chu Tian's feet straight to the crown of his head. The figure seated upon the Human Emperor Bone Throne had only glanced at him, yet that single look sent the Hongmeng Heavenly Path he had just stabilized into violent turmoil.
"Who are you?!"
Who are you?! Chu Tian roared inwardly. Without hesitation, he turned his divine sense into a sharp sword and drove it into the Five Elements Imperial Seal, desperate to uncover the full truth behind that vision of the future—to see the face hidden in the darkness!
But just as his divine sense was about to touch the vision—
Boom!
A terrifying power from the very source of the universe, unfathomable in its depths, rose like an impassable wall of sighs and severed Chu Tian's probe. The blurred glimpse of the future rippled like water, then shattered completely above the imperial seal and vanished.
Chu Tian grunted and staggered half a step back, his face pale.
"Heavenly Lord!"
A weak but urgent voice rose from below.
A faint cluster of green light drifted up from the ruins of the Greenwood Divine Hall and gathered before Chu Tian into a battered soul. It was the Withered Wood Ancient Ancestor, who had been smashed to pieces protecting him!
Though the Withered Wood Ancient Ancestor's body had been destroyed and his Creation Realm origin dispersed, the tenacious vitality of the wood laws had allowed him to preserve a fragment of his soul.
He looked at the Five Elements Imperial Seal in Chu Tian's hand, its light flickering. Shock and gravity mingled on his illusory face.
"You saw it, didn't you?" the Withered Wood Ancient Ancestor asked, his voice heavy with exhaustion.
Chu Tian fixed the remnant soul with a piercing stare. "What exactly was