The four Imperial Path powerhouses were aghast at the sight.
"A Chaos Being?!"
Ancestor Yuanchu cried out in shock, no longer bothering to suppress the cracks in his Dao foundation. His aged eyes were fixed upon the colossal creature beyond the barrier, his pupils shrinking to pinpoints.
They had lived for endless ages and roamed the Chaos Domain countless times. The Chaos beasts they had seen numbered in the tens of thousands, if not more.
Yet never had any one of them brought such suffocating pressure upon them!
That aura was ancient, savage, and unfathomable—already far beyond the scope of the Imperial Path.
Even separated by a world barrier, merely gazing at it from afar made them feel their Dao laws trembling and wailing, as though they had been born a whole tier beneath it.
"Its might has far surpassed us Imperial Path existences... Only an Emperor can stand shoulder to shoulder with it."
Ancestor Suihan's voice trembled. The time crystal at his fingertips had long since shattered into powder. "Can such a creature truly be born from Chaos?"
"Impossible! All these years, we haven't even encountered a Chaos Being comparable to the Imperial Path. How could an Emperor-realm Chaos beast suddenly appear?"
"How long has it been lying against the barrier? And not one of us noticed..."
Just as the few of them were terrified out of their wits, their minds thrown into turmoil—
The Emperor slowly spoke, his voice incomparably steady, suppressing all unrest like a needle that steadied the sea.
"No."
"It did not originate from Chaos."
The gray-robed figure sat upon the imperial throne, his gaze piercing through layer after layer of world origin and falling directly upon the depths of the purple-gold behemoth's core.
As an Emperor-realm existence, he saw through the terrifying creature's true