"Threefold Balance True Insight..."
A faint murmur echoed through the void. Where the shattered starry sky met reality, space twisted and the boundary between truth and illusion blurred, as though something were about to burrow through.
Sensing the change, Sage Lord Xiyi grew solemn. An immortal god could not be taken lightly, not even a dead one. Fortunately, he had prepared for this.
"Sword, come!"
His will reached through heaven and earth, and Sage Lord Xiyi called to an existence beyond perception.
Almost at once, a sword's cry rang out. A streak of sword light crossed countless rivers and mountains and slashed straight at the shattered starry sky.
Under that strike, all sound fell silent and every color vanished. Heaven and earth seemed to enter a realm without form or shape.
Whoosh! The sword light fell, cutting through the formless. With a furious roar, the tenuous connection the shattered starry sky had finally forged with reality snapped.
Once that connection broke, the Golden Toad's lingering will could not reverse the tide, however unwilling it was. The shattered starry sky gradually sank into the depths of the world, severed from the present realm.
At the sight, Sage Lord Xiyi patted his chest with a small hand, looking thoroughly shaken.
"Good thing I contacted the immortal sword beforehand. Otherwise, we'd really have been in trouble this time."
Once he was sure the danger had passed, the weight on Sage Lord Xiyi's heart quietly lifted.
"That sword light..." Jiang Chen did not know when he had regained his senses. The sight of that sword light descending had left him dazed. The previous two strikes had been wondrous, but beside this one, they paled.
"What sword?"
True Lord Xuanji looked at Jiang Chen in confusion. As far as she could tell, nothing had happened