The astonishing Vision spread far and wide, shooting straight into the heavens. Even many formidable figures in starfields beyond the domain could see and sense it from afar.
"What a powerful aura and Dao resonance..."
"Such dense demonic energy—what fearsome weapon has emerged?"
"..."
"Devouring Heaven... Demon Jar... That is the Demon Jar forged by the Devouring Heaven Great Emperor!"
Suddenly, some of the formidable figures seemed to realize something and cried out in alarm:
"This Imperial Dao aura and these Dao-patterned traces are too astonishing. It looks like an unparalleled demonic weapon forged from an emperor's corpse! Could it be that the Devouring Heaven Great Emperor forged it from her own 'first-life body'?!"
"What?!"
"She... she was actually that ruthless! She would not even spare herself?!"
As the speculations of some cultivators spread, the entire world was thrown into an uproar.
Throughout the nearly twenty thousand years of the Devouring Heaven Calendar, passed down from generation to generation, almost everyone had formed a fixed impression of the Female Emperor: mercurial and ruthless in her methods.
At this moment, everyone was shaken by this "ruthless" act of the Female Emperor, their understanding of her overturned once more.
Although the overwhelming majority of them had never met the Female Emperor, they had not even once glimpsed from afar that immortal figure wearing the Ghost Face Mask.
Forging a weapon from one's own flesh and blood—what kind of madness was that?
What kind of resolve was that?
For a time, all manner of rumors spread like wildfire.
Some said the Female Emperor had done it in pursuit of some unknown Dao.
Others guessed that she had forged her first-life body into a weapon in order to sever her past.
Still others said that the Female Emperor had done so for..., paying such