Xu Changqing murmured four words under his breath, "Void Origin?"
Rumble!
The first layer of heavenly tribulation descended.
Dozens of Void Rifts appeared around him without warning. Each rift resembled an opened black eye, staring at the person before it from within the Void.
The instant the rifts appeared, the surrounding Star Core fragments were dragged into them by an invisible force. Yet the moment they touched the edges of the rifts, they were directly annihilated, leaving not even dregs behind.
Those Star Core fragments had endured the entire process of birth, burning, collapse, and fall over hundreds of millions of years. They were so hard that even condensed origin-power blades could barely leave a white mark upon them, yet before the Void Rifts, they were as fragile as paper.
Moreover, the rifts were continuously closing in.
Dozens of rifts contracted from every direction at once, leaving no blind spots.
Seeing this, Xu Changqing did not panic in the slightest.
He did not even activate Return to Origin's passive defense. He merely pushed his palm forward, and the Heaven-and-Earth Furnace flew out of his sea of qi, swelling wildly in the wind.
It grew from palm-sized into a colossal furnace three zhang tall. The furnace body was covered in patterns of the Creation Law, and its opening aimed at the largest Void Rift before directly beginning to devour it!
That was right.
He was actively devouring it.
That Void Rift swallowed three Star Core fragments as tall as half a man from the surroundings, only to collide head-on with the Heaven-and-Earth Furnace.
Before the void energy within the rift could unleash its might, the Heaven-and-Earth Furnace's devouring power swallowed it whole.
At once, the furnace body shuddered violently.
The Creation patterns on its walls abruptly lit up, and Origin Flame