379 The Situation Reverses

"Purple River Divine Lord" Ye Yuzhen and Fei Nanyi, the Mud Sect's Great Lotus Seat, were both peak Dao-entry experts of the present age. Both of them sensed it—a force beyond description, beyond naming, suddenly erupting from within that coffin.

At the same time, the void gave a soft "pop." The sensation of a gigantic bubble bursting spread through the air, and the power of Heavenly Dao permeating the atmosphere and all things between heaven and earth was swept away in a single stroke. Then emptiness filled with silence. In an instant of blankness, thought stopped, and time stopped.

It was a force close to hollowness.

Everyone's consciousness seemed to be compressed. Their minds had been wiped utterly blank, as though everything within them had been blasted clean away. In any case, Ye Yuzhen and Fei Nanyi were not the only ones suffering this illusion. Across the battlefield, whether He Ping, Marquis Kuaiyi, or anyone else, friend or foe alike, all experienced this abnormal sensation.

At that very moment, the primordial energy of heaven and earth within a hundred li was swept completely away. Every Dao-entry practitioner sensed this strange change. The instant the coffin opened, every interference and alteration that the Source of Heavenly Dao had produced in this world seemed to have been sealed away, entirely expelled.

Any cultivator would, for the first time here, experience a wondrous feeling—like the clarity after rain, beneath skies stretching ten thousand li without a cloud. It was as though such a vacuum-like environment had appeared in this world for the very first time.

"What exactly is this?"

Behind Ye Yuzhen and Fei Nanyi, the Great Lotus Seat, stood numerous experts. Among them was a ghostly old man whose physical body began to convulse violently. Flesh beneath his skin heaved again and