Just as his gaze swept beyond the heavens.
Suddenly...
Heaven and earth fell silent; clouds and rosy mists rolled backward!
Just as the Great Violet Luo Heavenly Palace stood condemned by a thousand voices, its Dao arena on the verge of collapse, before a voice was heard or a figure appeared, an anomaly had already arisen beyond the heavens—
The Star Sea became like a mirror, and the stars of countless domains froze at once, no longer revolving.
The winds and clouds of the Ninth Heaven seemed to sense something and stilled in unspoken accord. Bolts of Immortal Lightning quietly bowed to the ground; even cultivators of lightning Dao across the Boundless Immortal Domain did not dare let out the slightest thunderclap, for—the vault of heaven was cracking!
It was not shattering, but actively making way for some existence.
Between collapse and reforging, the Skyvault slowly split open into a vast abyss. A Primordial Immortal Domain fissure stretching billions of miles burst open, reaching straight into the depths of chaotic space.
Chaotic lightning surged forth, only to disintegrate entirely at the edge of that rift. Great Dao laws yielded on their own, and even supreme karma was crushed until it twisted and collapsed!
From within that rift, a battered little boat a hundred zhang long slowly sailed out. It was as tiny as a speck of dust in the Immortal Realm, yet its bearing was that of an epochal warship. It drifted leisurely from the other shore of chaos, as though sailing upstream through the River of Time, causing the laws of all ages to change course.
Its hull emerged, weathered and mottled, as if it had traveled from an ancient epoch to the present, carrying the afterglow of the Great Dao and the ashes of eras as it leisurely