A massive fissure split the earth in two.
After the blast of force passed, only a skull remained, falling to the ground. A weakened primordial spirit fled from the skull, hoping to escape amid the collapse of the heavenly palace.
Yet the moment it emerged, it struck an invisible wall. The earth, which had just been blasted open into a chasm, slowly closed again, and the vanished heavenly palace reappeared.
Saint Xuan Ye's primordial spirit stared at everything before him in utter disbelief.
Then countless golden chains wrapped around it, and layers of seals were driven into his primordial spirit, temporarily suppressing the weakened soul that had been damaged by his own self-destruction.
Taiyi and Di Jun, sheltered beneath the Chaos Bell, glanced at Wu Chu's body, which had remained unscathed even under a Saint's self-destruction. Taiyi asked, "Brother A Chu, just how strong is your physical body? Although that fellow's self-destruction was weakened twice before reaching you, the force that finally struck you couldn't have been insignificant! Even I could feel it through the Chaos Bell."
Wu Chu smiled. "It has little to do with the strength of my body. This is a minor world I created. Any damage I suffer can be transferred elsewhere."
At that moment, at the distant edge of the starry sky, a lightless celestial body silently disintegrated, as if an invisible hand had slapped it apart.
Although his physical body was indeed powerful, he had no intention of using it to forcibly take the aftermath of a Saint's self-destruction... Yes, merely the aftermath.
The first layer of defense had been the divine chains formed by Yibao. The second had been created by the Central Wuji Apricot-Yellow Banner, while the third was the sword qi within the heavenly palace.
After passing through three layers of