At first, all living beings still did not understand what had happened.
But at this moment, countless living beings felt something unmistakably clear.
It was... as though a pair of enormous eyes hovered above the boundless heavens, looking down upon the common people from on high.
It was a feeling of transcendence, of standing supreme through all eternity, above the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths.
And... an indescribable ferocity, an overbearing might!
As though even the combined power of everything in Heaven and Earth could not match one ten-thousandth of that aura.
And amid this eerie, oppressive atmosphere.
At a certain moment!
Gu Changqing moved.
No!
More precisely, he moved, yet seemed not to have moved at all.
He still swayed drunkenly, stumbling underfoot, his steps lurching every which way-the very picture of a drunkard so intoxicated he knew nothing of the world.
Yet amid those seemingly haphazard stumbles, the Heaven-Opening Divine Axe in his hand moved in response.
Hum...
The first trajectory was traced through the void.
That trajectory was mysterious beyond mystery, impossible to describe.
It did not resemble an ordinary axe mark. Rather, it seemed like... the first rift to cleave Chaos when Heaven and Earth first opened!
There was no earth-shaking sound, no world-destroying momentum.
There was only the most primitive, most fundamental tremor of "being" born from "nothingness."
Yet wherever this seemingly effortless trajectory passed.
The void collapsed.
It did not shatter. It did not tear.
It "collapsed."
As though the void itself, which bore all things, had lost its right to "exist" beneath this axe strike, visibly contracting into a stretch of empty chaos.
"This..."
Sect Master Tongtian's pupils abruptly contracted, and his body trembled almost imperceptibly.
But Gu Changqing's footsteps did not stop.
Swaying, he took his second step.
A second trajectory rose