That scream echoed through the Eternal Ages, etched into every heart, lingering long after it faded.
Everyone stared at the cloud of blood, dumbfounded. What had happened? How had the Great Emperor shadows suddenly blasted him apart?
"Was that Great Emperor Wushi? Emperor Zun? Undying Heavenly Emperor?"
Some who had achieved Alternative Dao Attainment peered past the layers of tribulation lightning and recognized the Three Figures standing before the sprawling palaces.
"The Female Emperor's shadow vanished outright just now. That means she can control it," one of them murmured.
"But Emperor Zun and Undying Heavenly Emperor are dead. No one controls their shadows, so they can only display their normal strength. There's only one explanation for the Great Accomplishment Sacred Body's miserable state..."
It was all Great Emperor Wushi's scheme!
The moment someone voiced that theory, it swept through the crowd of spectators. Everyone believed it at once.
Who could blast apart a Great Accomplishment Sacred Body on the verge of becoming a Great Emperor? Only Great Emperor Wushi—the Heavenly Emperor Successor, the son of two supreme beings, a man who had become a Great Emperor thousands of years ago!
What? You said Wushi wasn't that kind of man? Then were you saying Emperor Zun and Undying Heavenly Emperor, two dead men, had done it? Absurd!
What a colossal joke!
Everyone gazed in horror at the figure whose back faced all living beings, his dominance filling heaven and earth. Could there be an old grudge between Great Emperor Wushi and the Great Accomplishment Sacred Body?!
It wasn't me. I didn't do it. Stop making things up!
Deep in the Dao Realm, Wushi's face darkened. Listening to the spectators' deductions, he had nothing to say.
Emperor Zun and Undying had clearly struck too! They had used even more force than he