Desolate Heaven Domain, within the Myriad Tribulations Time-Sand.
Besides Chen Xun and the Moon Mother, there was another figure standing upon the earth.
His frame towered like a mountain. His skin was covered in weathered patterns like ancient bark, while his long beard cascaded like a waterfall, silver-white yet streaked with traces of passing time. It drifted around him as though endless ages had frozen in place.
He belonged to none of the races of the present Three Thousand Great Worlds, nor was he one of the Otherworldly Spirits. His race had long vanished in the Primordial Era.
He called himself the "Time Dao Ancestor." His eyes neither opened nor closed, and every movement he made revealed incomparable composure and majesty.
When he spoke, his voice rang like great bells and thunderous chimes, shaking the heart. "Sui, dies."
Sui...
That was his name—a name never remembered, never recorded.
His very existence was a tremendous shock, like an immortal mountain unchanged since time immemorial, spanning the transformations of the Immortal Dao Great Era. The bearing forged through the sediment of endless years was enough to drain heaven and earth of color and dim the sun and moon.
"Futian Supreme Venerable, this is a Heaven-and-Earth Saint. Please withdraw," the Moon Mother said gently.
Buzz!
She transformed into an enormous silver moon suspended in the heavens. Countless streams of moonlight poured down like a galaxy, enveloping Chen Xun. Though this moonlight appeared gentle, it contained immortal power sufficient to destroy an entire Heavenly Domain. Wherever it passed, the void collapsed into nothingness.
Heaven and earth lost their color; the cosmos turned upside down.
Chen Xun traced profound trajectories with both hands, instantly slicing apart the skies within a million miles into countless fragments of time. Every fragment was an independent little world—some flourishing