"Du Tianming, you've truly gone senile," Bai Ye said flatly.
Du Jingzhe's expression shifted slightly. "Your disciple..."
"Sending a Fate Painter against a Fate Painter-you do have a sense of humor. Unfortunately, your teacher can't laugh right now."
Bai Ye wasn't joking. He truly couldn't laugh.
At those words, Du Jingzhe froze. Beside him, the Prophet's expression had already changed drastically. He had no idea where he had slipped up. He had actually been discovered!?
He had no time to think. The instant his identity was exposed, he acted without the slightest hesitation. Like an oil painting soaked in water, his body melted into a puddle, then vanished through the cracks in the floor.
Bai Ye's expression remained unchanged. He simply watched calmly.
Du Jingzhe's face darkened terribly. He realized he had been deceived.
The flames of anger climbed into the Federation Speaker's eyes. This time... he was truly furious.
"Domain Unfolding-[Great Ruins Heaven: Endless Black Abyss]!"
In an instant, heaven and earth fell into eternal night.
It wasn't that the sky had darkened. Light itself... had vanished.
Every ray of light was drawn away in a heartbeat, like water flowing into a bottomless, freezing pool.
Sound followed.
Voices, wind, the sounds of energy propagating-every sound was devoured by the spreading darkness.
Du Jingzhe's domain had none of the earth-shattering noise of others, nor any destructive shockwaves. There was only absolute, silent darkness!
In the blink of an eye, everything within a hundred miles was sealed inside the boundless Black Abyss.
There was no sky here, no earth, no matter, no energy. There was only an omnipresent devouring force that crushed everything.
From outside the domain, a colossal black sphere could be seen rising abruptly from Federation Headquarters, like a black hole!
Within this absolute darkness, only three people retained