Boom!
An invisible, majestic aura of Karma swept through Tiandi. At this moment, Profound Heaven Dao Ancestor had actually spoken such heaven-shaking words.
Immortal Emperor Jie Ming was aghast, his pupils abruptly dilating as though he had lost his soul.
Profound Heaven Dao Ancestor extended a hand, gathering the last breath of True Immortal vital energy from his chest into his palm. It transformed into a brilliant Dao Light and struck toward Chen Xun.
This strike carried no destructive force.
It was the essence of the Great Dao that Profound Heaven Dao Ancestor had sorted through for hundreds of millions of years; the imprints of every Great Dao branch he had witnessed in his life; the crystallization of the Heavenly Laws he had spent his entire life comprehending, categorizing, and untangling. Before his death, he drove all of it into Chen Xun's true body.
And all of this...
Came from the Eternal Ancient Old Era. The reckoning had already arrived, and he dared not withhold it.
Chen Xun did not evade.
The Dao Light entered his body. The aura beyond Dao around Chen Xun abruptly trembled, and his perception of the Great Dao burst outward at this moment, absorbing everything carried by that Dao Light, as though reclaiming what had always belonged to him.
Profound Heaven Dao Ancestor's hand fell. He slumped down, and the Yin-Yang Dao Wheel behind him went utterly dark. His Dao Power dispersed. The old man who had arranged the world for hundreds of millions of years was, at this moment, merely a frail, aging shell seated upon shattered void, his eyes slowly closing.
"Good."
He said only that one word.
At the summit of the Heavenly Marrow Mine Vein.
Chen Xun stood there, his white robes unchanged and his hair undisturbed. The Heaven-Opening Axe vanished