"But do you think you alone, even with a band of youngsters at your side,
can destroy my Heaven Gate as you once destroyed the Ninefold Immortal Sect?"
The Gate Heavenly King smiled, serene and utterly above them all.
"Young man, you underestimate this king."
"And you think far too highly of yourself!"
As the words fell, he slowly raised his hand.
The movement was slow and light, as though he were merely waving it in passing.
But the instant he raised his hand, the entire world changed!
Rumble!!!
The sky turned bloodred in an instant!
The earth became scorched wasteland!
The void collapsed, dissolving into boundless Chaos!
And the scene around them began to shift at an inconceivable speed!
Everything around them vanished!
The tribulation clouds filling the sky vanished!
The shattered fragments of the Throne vanished!
In their place lay a brutal Ancient Battlefield!
Beneath their feet, corpses were piled like mountains!
Above their heads, torn banners fluttered!
In their ears rang deafening battle cries, the clang of clashing weapons, and the screams of the dying!
"This... this is..."
Yun Zhongtian's eyes widened as he stared at it all in disbelief.
"This is... the battlefield of the Ninefold Firmament from over ten billion years ago!!!"
Once he recognized the scene around them, he cried out, his voice trembling!
In that battle, blood had flowed in rivers and corpses had covered the fields. Countless mighty figures had fallen!
That battle had determined the order of the Ninefold Firmament for the next ten billion years!
Yet now they had actually... returned to that era?
No!
They had not gone back!
"How... how is this possible?!"
The voice of one Tribulation Transcendence Realm cultivator cracked, his eyes filled with terror!
He saw a corpse slowly rise from the mountain of dead!