The Outer Chaos Region lay in deathly silence.
The two "supreme powerhouses," who had just been brimming with triumph as they used the Heaven-Opening Divine Axe to flaunt their might before the Primordial World, now stood frozen.
Hongjun and the Elder of Chaos exchanged a glance.
That single glance was enough for each to see the deep, unconcealable wariness in the other's eyes.
They clearly had no idea why Gu Changqing had come.
They clearly held the greatest killing weapon of all time and had every advantage.
Yet that wariness had become an almost instinctive reaction, utterly beyond their control.
It was like... being pinned to the ground and ground into the dirt by someone far too many times. Even with a blade in hand now, the mere sight of that swaying figure still sent fear stirring in their hearts before anything else.
The scars he had left on their minds!
Those scars ran far too deep!
After all, Gu Changqing had once seized the Chaos Bead from the Elder of Chaos, and the Taiyi Jade Ruyi had also been lost at his hands. The Elder of Chaos had suffered one humiliation after another.
As for Hongjun, this drunkard had challenged and defied him before all living beings of the Primordial World time and again, nearly stripping him of even his dignity as the Dao Ancestor.
Those past encounters remained vividly etched in their minds.
Now that the two of them had joined forces to refine the Heaven-Opening Divine Axe, they had thought they could finally hold their heads high and straighten their backs.
Who would have imagined that, before they could even speak, the very man himself would come knocking!
"..."
For a time, neither Hongjun nor the Elder of Chaos spoke first.
Meanwhile.
Gu Changqing seemed utterly oblivious