Time seemed to freeze at this moment. Every cultivator's gaze focused on the figure who had once commanded the winds and clouds, holding their breath as they awaited his reaction.
Slowly, Taixiao's hunched body began to straighten.
His movements were slow, yet carried an irresistible resolve. When he raised his head, everyone involuntarily sucked in a cold breath.
Taixiao's forehead was covered in blood. The crimson fluid slowly trickled along his deep wrinkles, carving streak after streak across his pale face. Yet what truly chilled the heart was his gaze.
Beneath that bloodied forehead lay a pair of indifferent eyes, stripped of all living emotion and tinged with faint exhaustion. They were no longer the eyes that had once looked down upon the world, no longer the eyes that had once blazed with the high spirits of challenging the Five-Elements Dao Ancestor for supremacy.
Those unyielding, unforgettable eyes had now lost every trace of their edge.
At this moment, Taixiao's gaze swept over his surroundings, as though he were looking at them, yet also as though he were not.
This sight made the experts of the three clans, even the Immortals, sink in spirit as if struck by a heavy hammer. Such contrast, such transformation, was more shocking than any words or attack...
The cultivators of the Primordial Emperor Clan's pupils convulsed violently. They no longer attacked, nor did they speak.
Taixiao turned around calmly and continued walking across the earth.
Suddenly—
A vast gale erupted between heaven and earth. An endless world crashed down from the void, and the instant it appeared, it suppressed the Heaven and Earth Origin of the entire Primordial Mirror Heavenly Domain!
Rumble...
"Who dares?!" The Immortals of the three clans groaned and retreated violently, their eyes splitting with rage and disbelief.
The cultivators of