Heaven and earth, the river of stars, the four corners of the universe—all fell into absolute darkness!
New stars were clearly being born, and they should have been radiating endless brilliance. Yet not a single thread of light remained between heaven and earth. Starlight, sunlight, moonlight—all light in the world had vanished, swallowed up without leaving behind the slightest trace.
At an even more terrifying microscopic and fundamental level, every rule related to light in this starry sky—the rules of light, flame, destruction, dawn sun, Taiyin... all rules concerning radiance and the sun—had been seized and stripped away by an unknown, terrifying existence. No outsider could touch even a fraction of them.
Because Cong's collective will, that of a quasi-Celestial, was controlling them!
Only a terrifying, crushing pressure spread through heaven and earth, shrouding and suppressing everything. It made the many Dao Integration Divine Lords tremble without end, while the Heavenly Dao rule-net that formed the foundation of the Great Dao warped and twisted, unable to maintain its normal state.
"No..."
"Has the Eastern Extreme Demon Sect crossed that threshold?"
The Weaving Cloth Sky Spider Divine Lord roared.
The rulers of realm after realm, Dao Integration cultivators who controlled the Heavenly Dao rules of an entire domain, trembled as they frantically huddled together. Their many private schemes against one another greatly diminished, making their joint formation increasingly terrifying as its power continuously soared.
Yet even so, they still could not face that terrifying stellar pressure head-on.
They roared in the darkness.
Buzz!
Amid that suffocating, terrifying dead silence, a point of light finally appeared high above the boundless heavens. It steadily expanded, blossoming into a star.
This star was terrifying and destructive, surrounded by eighteen transparent, rippling halos.
At its very center stood an illusory yet seemingly real figure, like