However, the instant he had just put away the jade box—
A sudden change occurred!
An indescribable, extreme palpitation originating from the very source of his soul pierced through Zhang Shuai's entire body like billions of icy needles in an instant!
The space, light, sound, and even the flow of time within this Primordial Origin Tomb all froze in that instant.
It was as though an unimaginable will had forcibly pressed the pause button on the underlying laws that constituted everything.
Zhang Shuai discovered that he could not even move a finger. Though his thoughts were still running, they seemed to have sunk into a boundless mire, making even the formation of a single thought unbearably sluggish.
Then, a vast, cold, utterly pure will spread forth—as if an ancient god that had slept since time immemorial had slowly opened its eyes—from every inch of wall in the inverted giant tower, every wisp of pool water, and even from the very essence of the void!
To his horror, Zhang Shuai found that his connection to the spiritual qi of heaven and earth had been completely severed!
The chaotic true essence that had once moved as easily as his own limbs now stagnated within his body like dead water, impossible to stir in the slightest! Even more terrifyingly, he could feel his life origin, soul imprint, and even his perception of the passage of time being slowly and irreversibly eroded and stripped away by that invisible will of wrath!
It was as though an unseen giant hand were erasing him bit by bit from the universe's register of existence!
"Th-this... is this Heaven's wrath?"
Boundless terror surged within Zhang Shuai's heart.
He realized that forcibly taking the Creation Green Lotus had been a brutal interference with the order of heaven and earth's