The cosmic expanse beyond the Demon Heaven Realm lay silent, as though time itself had frozen.
An unseen cold wave swept in from the depths of the boundless cosmos and blew into the hearts of these domain rulers, making them tremble.
Dao Integration cultivators.
Fourteen Dao Integration cultivators who were considered invincible rulers across the domains, cultivators they called fellow Daoists!
One moment, they had been drinking and laughing together, agreeing to become in-laws, taking one another's disciples, and pledging to form an alliance that would stand together and never betray each other. The next, those companions had vanished without a sound.
How could that not throw them into panic?
The unknown.
The invisible, icy unknown washed over them like a cold wave, stirring endless suspicions and countless stray thoughts in the Dao Integration cultivators. The more they thought, the more afraid they became; the more they speculated, the less ground their guesses had. For a time, their minds were tangled like hemp.
Many of the Dao Integration cultivators glanced at the empty space around them.
The Ancient God Alliance had originally possessed forty-six Dao Integration cultivators. Its ranks were strong, making it the mightiest force across the domains. If not for its internal chaos and inability to act as one, that strength would have been enough to sweep aside every other faction and stand unrivaled beneath the heavens. Even the Nine Spirits Domain and the Nine Great Immortal Sects would have been nothing to fear.
Now, their ranks had suddenly thinned.
Fourteen fellow Daoists they had seen only recently had vanished without a sound. A full three-tenths of their Dao Integration cultivators were gone.
Three-tenths!
That meant one in every three domain rulers who had looked down upon the world for tens of thousands of years was dead—or missing,