Taiyi raised his right hand.
The Chaos Bell appeared in his palm.
The sun, moon, and stars on the ancient bell lit up one after another. Before its invisible might had truly descended, the nearby stars began to slow in their orbits.
The next moment, the Chaos Bell trembled, and the sound of the Great Dao rang out.
The sound did not spread outward from where Taiyi stood.
The instant the bell rang, its sound had already crossed the entire distance between them and entered every moment that had ever flowed through this starfield.
Space no longer held near or far.
Time no longer held before or after.
Before the myriad laws could change, the Chaos Bell pinned them in place.
The blow did not strike Qing Xuan's Dao body. It fell directly upon his Daluo Dao Fruit, unique and undivided across all time.
Kong Xuan's Five-Colored Divine Light manifested on its own.
To her eyes, the distant starry sky remained intact. Qing Xuan and Taiyi had not even moved.
Yet her senses of time, space, and the Five Elements Great Dao all fell still at that single toll.
It was as though, from the moment the bell rang, no new change should ever be born into the world.
Qing Xuan still stood where he was.
A vast world slowly unfolded behind him.
Unlike the phantom world that had once shown only mountains, rivers, the sun, and the moon, all the Daos within this world were now fully connected.
A wisp of wind crossing the mountains could stir a sea of trees, drive the clouds, shift the balance of Yin and Yang, warmth and cold, and finally become a fine rain above a river.
Every change within it was linked to the other Daos. Not one thing remained isolated.
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