Time and the material world surged like a tide toward the Immortal Artifact Heir, who was driving the Reverse Five-Elements Zhou-Tian Demon-Refining Furnace beyond its limits.
He and his Flesh Furnace Dao Soldier Formation of billions were still operating. At every moment, they could swallow the spiritual energy of heaven and earth like a whale. The thunder of their operation altered the weather across clusters of worlds and overturned the laws of heaven and earth. They were the Dao soldiers and Dao Child for which the Immortal Artifact Sect was renowned.
Yet at that moment, everything began to solidify, from the outside in.
A terrifying, invisible force arose from the universe and spread toward them. Countless Flesh Furnace Dao Soldiers and disciples of the Immortal Artifact Sect desperately tried to control the battle formation, only to go rigid. Their souls, bodies, and thoughts froze in an instant, severing them from the outside world. No amount of furious shouting could wake them.
"Hah..."
A cold, suffocating premonition enveloped the Immortal Artifact Heir.
He drove the Reverse Five-Elements Zhou-Tian Demon-Refining Furnace in his chest with all his might, unleashing wave after wave of reverse five-elements power to dispel the freezing of time again and again.
But in the end, everything still froze.
This stretch of heaven and earth fell utterly silent!
Then two colossal scroll rods, each tens of thousands of yards tall, appeared between heaven and earth. Pressed close together at first, they unfurled to either side, revealing a magnificent Star-River Scroll whose battle intent pierced the clouds.
It truly was a peerless painting!
Its figures seemed alive, without a trace of hollowness. Every expression and detail was rendered down to the finest hair. Terror, rage, grief, heroic spirit, and countless other fierce emotions nearly burst from the paper, letting living