Half a month later, the Cosmic Tidal Surge finally subsided completely.
The spiritual radiance over the sea gradually faded, and gray-white Chaos mist once again occupied this stretch of waters. Everything was returning to how it had been before the tidal surge.
Yet just as the final gigantic Chaos wave surged up, an abrupt change occurred.
A streak of red light shot out from the depths of the massive wave.
It was so fast that even Xu Changqing's Divine Sense could barely catch its afterimage.
Its form was indistinct, resembling a broken sword one moment and a shattered scepter the next, yet it emitted the fluctuations of an ancient consciousness.
Before everyone's eyes, it burst through the massive wave, broke through layer upon layer of sealing Chaos mist, and fled wildly upward like a homeless dog.
"There's actually something hidden in the depths of the Sea of Chaos!"
"What exactly is that?"
"Judging from its fluctuations, it's definitely no ordinary thing!"
At this sight, everyone began discussing it heatedly.
Starting from where the red light had emerged, space split open like an ice sheet smashed apart, forming seven or eight pitch-black cracks. Each crack extended farther into the distance. What surged from within them was not Chaos Law, but an energy purer than Chaos itself.
It transcended the level of laws; it was a corrective force originating from the very framework of the universe.
Moreover, this space was rejecting that streak of red light.
As though this heaven and earth did not permit it to exist.
The next instant, space twisted.
The red light vanished with startling abruptness, leaving behind no trace whatsoever.
The shattered spatial cracks healed in that same instant, as if nothing had ever happened.
Nearly everyone stood where they were, each wearing a different expression.
Golden