Absolute calm. Absolute silence. No new ripples arose.
Some of the Great Powers had already reached a conclusion: this attempt to reopen Chaos had probably failed. It was over.
Even the Great Dao had stopped responding. No further changes appeared.
Did that mean every possibility had vanished? Had the First Origin Point reached the end of the road, with nothing left in its fate but disappearance?
No!
Exhausting every possibility did not mean all hope of life was lost.
It might mean they had found the Escaped One!
Boom!
Suddenly, something like an explosion rang out. It struck the Great Powers deep within, echoing through their True Spirits.
Under that sound, even the Great Powers' Daos seemed to waver. They trembled, resonating with the explosion.
The Great Powers lost all awareness of anything beyond themselves. Some could not even sense themselves, as though reality had slipped out of focus.
At the Source of Time, the entire Boundless Chaos Sea seemed to burst into boundless light.
Countless multicolored streaks blotted out the sky, covered the Chaos Sea, and ran through the entire River of Time.
The sound rang not only in the hearts of the Great Powers at the Source of Time, but in the hearts of the Boundless Chaos Sea's endless living beings.
At that sound, countless beings froze. Their minds and hearts went blank, without a single thought. For that moment, they seemed to forget everything.
Even entire worlds congealed and stopped turning.
Time ceased to flow, space stood fixed, Fate no longer changed...
It was as if someone had pressed pause on the entire Chaos Sea, its countless beings and endless worlds.
Yet the countless multicolored streaks did not stop. They truly illuminated the entire Chaos Sea.
Not one place escaped their radiance. They covered all of Chaos.