He seemed to become a true god, impossible to look upon directly.
An aura that surpassed the limits of the Emperor Realm and touched the essence of life at a higher level spread from him like a tide, battering the minds of every Divine Emperor in the hall.
Several Divine Emperors with slightly weaker cultivation even felt their Dao hearts tremble. The moment their eyes fell on Chen Xuan, they felt their own Daos hum, as though they might be crushed at any instant by that boundless pressure.
A single glance felt enough to make them explode.
As Chen Xuan unleashed his full strength, he began to act.
With a single thought.
Across the boundless lands of the Origin World, within its three thousand Divine Palaces, the teleportation arrays built over the Origin Passages to monitor and control transit all shuddered at once, without warning.
Then, before the horrified eyes of countless guarding cultivators, the heavy runes of their foundations began to collapse and crack!
The intricate formations laid down by ancient Divine Emperors and reinforced over countless years broke apart inch by inch. Like fragile glass, they crumbled to dust in the void!
The teleportation arrays of all Three Thousand Divine Palaces shattered.
But Chen Xuan had no intention of destroying the links between those passages. He merely erased every man-made "lock" and "door" added to control transit, returning the arrays to their original form: natural spatial passages directly connecting the Origin Stars throughout the Chaos Realms.
With the teleportation arrays broken, no faction could control the passages. No "key" or "permission" was needed to pass through them.
Anyone with sufficient strength could cross freely.
At the same time, streams of power, overwhelming yet gentle and embracing, surged like a tide through the three thousand opened passages toward the