The void was like a placid sea into which divine iron weighing billions of tons had been cast.
It twisted and buckled, then suddenly collapsed inward and shattered!
Two supremely brilliant, supremely terrifying Sword Intents collided with a thunderous crash, like world-destroying volcanoes that had slumbered for countless ages.
One was black as eternal night, devouring endless light and corroding laws.
Wherever it passed, even space itself cried out in anguish and melted into a viscous fluid.
The other shone like the divine radiance of Heaven-Opening, majestic and righteous, tearing through all gloom and obstacles with a supreme will to sever fate and transcend reincarnation.
At the center of the collision, a point of absolute blackness exploded.
It was as though sun and moon had spun through their cycles and heaven and earth had shattered—the utter death of the void.
The runes of the Space Great Dao, the fundamental laws that formed the world's skeleton—
At that moment, they fractured inch by inch like ice crystals cast into a furnace, letting out piercing cries of anguish.
In an instant, a black hole emerged, a distorted chaos vortex that frantically tore at everything around it: light, laws, and the vital energy spilling into the surroundings.
Even the shattered remnants of those two sword intents were ruthlessly swallowed!
It was the embryonic form of a black hole!
A deathtrap that even ordinary Holy Realm experts would shun.
Yet this terrifying spectacle, enough to bury an entire great world, did not last long.
From the direction of the radiant Sword Intent surged layer upon layer of Dao patterns, fine and dense as dust.
Through a process that bordered on transformation into the Dao, they took that raging, destructive energy—
And ground the newborn black hole down into the most primordial nothingness.
Space was