It was a portal that defied description.
It had no physical form, woven solely from pure gray-white radiance. It stood silently at the boundary between the Myriad Heavens and the Silent Abyss, resembling a colossal cosmic maw that devoured everything.
The light exhaled through the crack in the gate had neither color nor temperature. Yet any meteorite, stellar remnant, or even stray wisp of law that approached it would have its very existence silently and utterly erased the instant it touched that radiance.
It was not destruction, but "erasure." It was like rubbing a pencil mark off a sheet of white paper with an eraser—even cause and effect ceased to exist.
"What the hell is that?" Heavenly King Emperor dragged his broken body forward, staring fixedly at the gray gate. A rare trace of fear actually surfaced in his eyes. As the embodiment of Destruction, he instinctively sensed that whatever lay behind that gate was purer—and more lethal—than he was.
The First Human Emperor leaned against Chu Tian's arm, his body weathering away at a speed visible to the naked eye.
"That is... the 'Guixu Mother Gate.'" The First Human Emperor's voice was filled with boundless exhaustion. "Back then, the Taiyi Realm was not the only one. Before Taiyi, there were countless ancient universes. But every one of them was devoured by whatever lies behind this gate."
"Beyond the gate lies the outside of the Taiyi Realm—the ultimate graveyard where the universes of successive ages were buried. It is also the true... birthplace of this Corpse Lord."
Chu Tian's heart sank violently. The Corpse Lord wasn't a mutation born in the Taiyi Realm? It was an outsider devourer?!
"Not good!" Chu Tian's expression suddenly changed drastically.
Through the causal network of Taiyi Freedom, he clearly sensed that several dozen star