Ring!

"It's here!"

Inside the Main Hall, everyone jolted as one, their gazes following Li Qingshan's eyes to the surface of a Barren Planet in orbit.

Bzzzz—!

The void trembled faintly, releasing a dull, muffled hum.

A long, narrow fissure tore through the earth and rose from the ground, expanding to a hundred meters in the blink of an eye!

"A Third Order fissure?!"

Kong Yang and Chi Wen spoke at the same time, then exchanged a tacit glance, both seeing the helplessness in each other's eyes.

They had personally watched Li Qingshan seize the planets outside the Main Hall one by one from the Stellar Sea. Naturally, they knew that this sudden fissure was no simple matter, and that its source had to be the Evil God Proxy.

But knowing did not mean they could understand it. Limited by their cultivation, all they could see at this moment was that single fissure. They had no hope of seeing through the methods behind it.

And they were not the only ones.

Lu Bing, who had recently entered the Ninth Order, along with the other sixty-seven councilors, had their eyes fixed on the fissure. Though they had precisely caught a wisp of strange, treacherous aura mixed within it, the layers upon layers of sky curtains concealed too much. They likewise had no idea what was happening.

The only person present who could barely pierce the layers of sky curtains and glimpse a trace of the truth Above the Nine Heavens was—Qu Hongwen!

The old man abruptly straightened his hunched back, and a piercing gleam burst from his clouded old eyes!

Within the phantom reflected in his pupils, the Nine Layered Sky Curtain shattered inch by inch, revealing a pale thread stretching from the darkest depths of the vast Stellar Sea!

That was...