Nine Heavens, Star Dome.
Above the dome, the pitch-black region where the [Ancient Hall] lay flickered from time to time with profound formation patterns, blocking all prying eyes from outside.
A hundred years had passed. Since Li Qingshan's command for all members to return to their positions, the [Ancient Hall] had remained silent for a century.
And across the vast Universe beneath the Star Dome, the Deputy Executors who had survived by sheer luck and the Blade Wielders hidden in the deepest shadows had finally gained a brief chance to catch their breath...
Of course, it was only a chance to catch their breath!
Only a mere hundred years had passed. No one dared show themselves again, much less expose their tracks in the Universe.
Gazes lurked within dark cracks and crevices, watching that missing patch of "sky" above the dome. They did not hope to truly see anything; they only prayed that the [Ancient Hall] would remain silent a little longer, that this "chance to catch their breath" might last just a little longer...
However,
despite their devout prayers,
the oppressive peace that had lasted a hundred years ultimately failed to endure...
Buzzz—!
The hum swept through the Nine Heavens Universe in an instant, as though an invisible string belonging to the laws themselves had been violently plucked!
At the same time, the heartstrings of every existence Above the Nine Heavens tightened. Their gazes instantly shifted from the gap in the Nine Heavens toward...
the supreme dome!
Such a scene was not unfamiliar to them. Especially after Li Qingshan emerged, they had experienced it many times—
This was the manifestation of Divine Might!
Only the might of the gods could connect to the origin of the universe, disregarding distances of hundreds of millions of light-years and covering the vast