In the Vacuum Hometown, a woman who looked almost exactly like Gu Xiaosang rose to her feet.
But she was more mature than Gu Xiaosang, more imposing, and far colder.
A black banner rose behind the Golden Emperor. A terrifying aura coiled around it, answering the Apocalypse and splitting Heaven and Earth apart.
Countless Dao Patterns covered the black banner, and their meaning revealed itself:
The Six-Soul Banner!
It had originally been Lingbao Heavenly Venerable's Treasure, a Divine Weapon of unfathomable strangeness and power. Even to him, it was one of his ultimate treasures.
In some respects, it was no less formidable than his Four Immortal-Slaying Swords.
During the Investiture of the Gods War, when the Grand Formation of Ten Thousand Immortals stood, Lingbao Heavenly Venerable had tried to use the Six-Soul Banner to reverse the tide and overturn the chessboard.
Unfortunately, several great figures of the Other Shore joined forces to block its power, and he failed in the end.
One could imagine how terrifying a Divine Weapon had to be for Lingbao Heavenly Venerable to pin his hopes of turning the tables on it.
It was a Treasure similar to the Nail-Head Seven-Arrows Book, a weapon that killed through curses, but it was vastly more powerful.
This was a Divine Weapon that defied all common measure.
Six streamers hung from the Six-Soul Banner. A name was written on each:
"Meng Chuan! Meng Qi! Monster Emperor! Amitabha Buddha! Azure Emperor! True Martial!"
The Six-Soul Banner stood amid the Heavens, rooted in the Vacuum Hometown and reaching into the boundless heights. It was like a banner summoning the souls of every Living Being across every Era of the Myriad Heavens and Worlds—chilling, uncanny, terrifying.
Whooo! Whooo!
In what had once been the Yin Cao Underworld, the wind howled like weeping.