"What truly... imposing grandeur!"
Inside Biyou Palace, Gu Changqing seemed to murmur to himself.
His voice was exceedingly soft, so soft that a passing breeze seemed enough to scatter it.
It sounded like praise, but anyone listening closely would have heard the utter nonchalance in his words.
There was even a hint of... mockery.
He was like a spectator watching a play, casually calling out a word of applause upon seeing a reasonably entertaining scene.
Nothing more.
On the Sage's Throne, however, Tongtian's expression was nowhere near so composed.
His face was dark as stormy waters, his gaze lowered, and anger he could not conceal simmered around him.
Inheriting Pangu's might?
Ruling the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths?
What a shameless pair Hongjun and the Elder of Chaos were!
Fury churned in Tongtian's chest.
Back when Great God Pangu had split heaven and earth apart in Chaos, the three thousand chaos demon gods had struck together, obstructing his Dao and assaulting the heavens, desperate to strangle that world in its cradle before it could take shape.
The Elder of Chaos had been one of them!
And had Hongjun's hands been clean back then?
Yet now, these two had the gall to boast about inheriting Pangu's former might.
How laughable!
Still, beneath his anger, Tongtian knew that the two were borrowing another's prestige.
Whose prestige?
Pangu's!
The Heaven-Opening Divine Axe was Great God Pangu's supreme treasure of Dao attainment, the ultimate divine artifact that had opened the Primordial World. In the eyes of all living beings, it was Lord Pangu's symbol, the embodiment of the soul of creation.
Now, Hongjun and the Elder of Chaos had refined it before all living beings of the Primordial World, flaunting its divine might.
They wanted all living beings to understand that refining the Heaven-Opening