In Fallen Immortal Forest, Great Chu's State Preceptor Fan Shijue suddenly swayed, turning into a bubble phantom and vanishing.
Without the slightest room for thought, Jiang Wang, fleeing as a rainbow, abruptly bent through space and gave chase—
Across the Celestial Vault stretched a vast, empty whiteness, imperceptible save to True Insight, invisible save to Dao Derivation. Looking closely, there was fine dust within it; look closer still, and every mote of dust was a world! It rose and fell in a daze, bizarre and kaleidoscopic.
These were ripples of space-time slanting across the Divine Continent! They displayed a power that this world could not contain, a power exceeding the limits of the Present World.
As a Transcendent's power traveled through the Present World, even this boundless world acquired boundaries—the tiers of power were those boundaries. With but a single water droplet streaking through the air, even its trail became a scar upon the Present World!
This was absolutely not a mighty power that could be glimpsed beneath the limits of the Present World.
Yet that streak of azure rainbow cut across the empty whiteness!
With a posture brushing against the limits of the Present World, it traveled through those ripples that shook the boundaries of power. Wounded by them, borne along by them, like an arrow loosed from the bow to shoot down the sun, it plunged headlong toward an unknowable future!
The entirety of Fallen Immortal Forest shook again and again.
Xiong Zidu still wore his armor, still bore the Flat Heaven Crown his father had placed upon his head, and gripped the Vermilion Phoenix Imperial Sword as he prepared to rise after them—
"Not permitted!"
A lock of frost-white hair hung before Zuo Xiao's brow as the Duke stood in the new sovereign's path.
By rights, when