"Yuan, why the rush?"
"The soul is no small matter. Even if I must cut away a piece of it, you should at least give this old man some time..."
The mighty cultivator of the Black Tortoise Heavenly Palace forced a smile.
"Hahaha."
Yuan was smiling too.
"Fire."
His smile vanished.
For an instant, the star-filled expanse spanning hundreds of thousands of li froze.
Countless stars poured forth their light, and torrents of spiritual energy rolled in through the Sky-Covering Divine Banyan. The omnipresent Primordial Magnetism Heavenly Law Web drew it all into the ten-thousand-li Banyan Tree Orbital Annihilation Cannon. There, in an instant, something terrifying gathered—something that made even Dao Integration divine lords shudder.
Boom!
Dazzling light filled heaven and earth. The cosmos turned white-hot, as though a star had exploded.
In that instant, the entire starry expanse trembled and the laws of heaven and earth fell into chaos. Every cultivator below Dao Integration felt their mind reel. The mighty cultivators of the Heavenly Mechanism Immortal Palace and the other orders turned deathly pale. All they could do was guard their minds and keep their souls firmly in contact with the Heavenly Dao, preserving their ability to trigger a Dao Integration heavenly tribulation.
Beyond that, they could do nothing.
Of the Nine Great Immortal Sects, seven had temporarily lost the power to steer the course of their domains. They could only drift with the current, reduced to the weak, no longer the powers that had once stirred wind and clouds.
The seven mighty cultivators of the Immortal Orders caught only a glimpse of a beam of destruction wrapped in the Primordial Magnetism Heavenly Law Web. It flashed past, shattered the laws of heaven and earth, and vanished.
Boom!
Another thunderous crash rang out, and destructive light illuminated the world.