That near-eternal Sword Qi broke through the power of the end spreading inward from outside, tearing apart annihilation itself.
This world's power of the end differed from that of the Fa Yuan Realm. In the Fa Yuan Realm, it meant shattering, all things returning to ruin. Here, even the motion of the most fundamental particles that made up the world had vanished completely. Absolute stillness brought eternal annihilation, yet the sword scar broke through it all, its boundless power preventing annihilation from spreading farther.
"To hold back the decline of an entire great world by one's own strength—what tremendous power!" Gu Yuanqing praised softly.
If he gave it his all now, he might barely manage the same, but he could never sustain it for so long with a single divine ability.
His gaze continued sweeping across the Spirit Realm, revealing many things already submerged in the River of Time.
Those traces were exceedingly faint, so faint that even Celestial Immortals could scarcely detect them. Only Golden Immortals who had comprehended Indestructibility and touched the River of Time could glimpse a little of them.
"The Spirit Realm was far stronger back then than it is now. There were even quite a few cultivators above the Immortal realm. But as this world approached its end, it could no longer sustain cultivators of that level."
"This sword scar may have been the last thing a Mighty Figure who achieved the Dao here could do for it before leaving."
"Even so, this world's march toward its end remains irreversible. The sword scar can only slow its decline, not truly stop it. Perhaps hundreds of millions of years from now, this continent will fall apart, its spiritual qi will run dry, and its Immortal Path civilization will gradually disappear, until the entire world dissolves completely