Meanwhile, the Sun Star had been missing for several days.
As the Dao Ancestor, Hongjun naturally had the duty of finding the Sun Star and bringing it back.
"The Sun Star's incarnation should be somewhere nearby."
"I'll search within a radius of fifty trillion miles with my divine sense."
"I hope this little mistress will obediently return and illuminate the land. Otherwise, this will be troublesome."
"..."
Hongjun, at the Quasi-Sage Peak, let out a heavy sigh.
If she refused to return, there was truly nothing he could do. He could not defeat her; her strength was clearly a notch above that of a Quasi-Sage. If he truly angered her, a single blast of Ultimate Flame would reduce him to ashes.
In this era without Sages, who could possibly defeat the Sun Star?
If the Lunar Star and Mount Buzhou gained sentience, the result would be the same.
"Wait, why do I have a bad feeling about this?"
Hongjun frowned.
A heart-palpitating sense of danger made even his soul tremble.
Even when facing Ancestor Dragon, Primordial Phoenix, First Qilin, or his mortal enemy Devil Ancestor Luohou, he had never felt this way.
Using the Jade Plate of Creation, Hongjun began calculating the secrets of heaven.
"The Primordial World... is going to be destroyed?!"
Hongjun immediately felt chills run down his spine.
This was a world created by a top-tier Chaos Demon God. To destroy it would require, at the very least, power of the same level.
What the hell was this? The Dragon-Han Initial Tribulation might have been a great calamity,
but its power should not have been this absurd, right?!
Crack—crack—
The sound of space shattering rang in the ears of every great expert in the Primordial World.
At almost the same moment, they all extended their divine senses in that direction. Though everything was pitch-black, the many Great Luo Golden Immortals and Quasi-Sage experts still witnessed a shocking sight.
At the center of the Primordial Continent, a bottomless crack had appeared, nearly splitting it into eastern and western continents.
Gasp!
"The Primordial Continent nearly split in two."
"Which fellow Daoist could have done such a thing? How terrifying."
"No, no, no. Even a Quasi-Sage expert shouldn't be able to achieve something like this."
"Don't look at me. I may be a Quasi-Sage, but splitting apart the Primordial Continent is beyond me too."
"Wait, this crack is still spreading. Don't tell me the entire Primordial Continent is going to shatter completely and explode into countless fragments?"
"Fuck! I don't want to die yet."
"..."
The destruction of the Primordial World would benefit none of its living beings.
Once a massive explosion occurred, everyone below the Quasi-Sage realm would die on the spot. Only Quasi-Sage experts could barely cling to life.
Thus, the accomplished Great Luo Golden Immortals were all panicking like mad.
Creak—
This mysterious power abruptly stopped halfway through its spread.
It seemed to have halted midway, and everyone immediately breathed a sigh of relief.
Fortunately, it had only nearly split in two, so the problem was not too serious. If the cataclysmic explosion from the destruction of the Primordial World had truly occurred, none of them would have escaped. That would have been the real catastrophe.
"That nearly scared me to death. What exactly caused this?"
"Could it be related to the Sun Star's disappearance?!"
"Isn't that too ridiculous? It has only been a few days, and the Primordial Continent nearly split apart."
"In any case, fellow Daoists, please help find the Sun Star and return it to its position as soon as possible. We might not be so lucky next time."
After leaving those words behind, Hongjun withdrew his divine sense.
Even the Jade Plate of Creation could not calculate the precise cause, but Hongjun had a feeling that this matter was definitely connected to the Sun Star's disappearance.
No matter what, he had to act as quickly as possible.
With a single thought sweeping across fifty quadrillion miles of Primordial land, Hongjun quickly discovered something amiss.
There was a valley roughly a hundred miles across, yet his divine sense could not enter it at all.
"There should be some mystery here."
"..."
Hongjun tore open space with his bare hands and took a step forward.
After crossing an unknown distance, his figure instantly appeared outside the Heavenly Dao Dojo.
"It clearly covers only a hundred-mile radius."
"Yet with my Quasi-Sage Peak cultivation, I cannot discern anything unusual."
"Even the Jade Plate of Creation, which can calculate the secrets of heaven, is completely useless before this tiny place."
Hongjun raised a brow and immediately heightened his vigilance.
The Sun Star had vanished in this area, and some scorching heat still lingered in the air.
Faced with such an unfathomable place, he had to prepare in advance. Otherwise, one misstep could mean death and the dissipation of his Dao. He had cultivated for who knew how many yuanhui; if he died here, there would be nowhere to weep.
"However, no matter how many hardships and dangers lie ahead, for the sake of all living beings under heaven, I must venture inside."
Hongjun stepped forward and entered the bounds of the Heavenly Dao Dojo.
His Quasi-Sage Peak cultivation seemed to be suppressed by something, directly falling to the level of an ordinary person. He was weaker than even a demon at Foundation Establishment, and even the Jade Plate of Creation lost its spiritual radiance, seeming to become an ordinary object.
At the same time, a familiar aura came from the center of the valley.
No matter how many years passed, Hongjun would never forget it.
The owner of this aura had once defeated him without effort and taken away all his Spirit Treasures.
Though they had eventually been returned to him, that could not conceal the fact that he had suffered a crushing defeat.
"It's you!"
"The Chaos Demon God of Space—Yang Mei!"
"..."