The instant Earth Baleful Heaven Lord fell, the entire world fell silent for a moment.
Then, a tremendous boom rang out.
"Rumble..."
A deep, muffled peal of thunder suddenly resounded above the Nine Heavens.
That thunder was unlike the violent fury of an ordinary Heavenly Tribulation. It was low and distant, as though it came from the deepest reaches of Space-Time, as though it were the wail of heaven and earth, as though it were the anguished cry of the Heavenly Dao.
At the same time, a faint layer of crimson began to emerge across the sky of the Ninefold Firmament.
That crimson was exceedingly faint, so faint that ordinary cultivators could scarcely see it.
Yet to those experts who had entered the Immortal King Realm, it was incomparably dazzling!
"This is..."
Yun Zhongtian and the others abruptly raised their heads toward the sky, their pupils violently contracting.
"The Heavenly Dao weeps blood... the sign of an Epoch's fall!"
His voice trembled.
An Epoch King was a supreme existence that had transcended the bounds of ordinary Immortal Dao, one whose true spirit had been branded into the Heavenly Dao!
The fall of every Epoch King would trigger a resonance within the Heavenly Dao and make heaven and earth mourn!
This was heaven and earth mourning the passing of an Epoch King!
"More than ten billion years..."
The gaunt old man muttered to himself, his eyes filled with complicated emotions.
"For more than ten billion years, not a single Epoch King has fallen in the Four Great Heavenly Domains..."
"Today, Earth Baleful Heaven Lord has fallen."
His voice was soft, yet everyone present heard it with perfect clarity.
At the same time, in Qiankun Heavenly Domain, Qiankun Hall.
This was a massive palace suspended above the Nine Heavens, forged entirely from