Silence.
Within the vast Jade Void Palace, there was nothing but suffocating silence.
Ever since sensing that Pangu Dao Rhythm from the direction of Golden Ao Island, powerful enough to make Heaven and Earth tremble, Heavenly Venerable Yuanshi had remained like this.
His eyes blazed like torches as he stared into the void, yet he said nothing.
Light and shadow flickered within those fathomless eyes, as though endless thoughts were surging and churning inside them.
Guangchengzi and the other members of the Twelve Golden Immortals stood in attendance within the hall, silent as cicadas in winter, not even daring to draw a deep breath.
They had never seen their Master like this.
He was neither furious nor frightened, but... grave as never before.
Within that gravity, there even lurked a trace of bewilderment that Yuanshi himself refused to acknowledge.
Pangu's Dao Rhythm...
That aura surged through Yuanshi's mind once again.
Pure, boundless, undying through the ages.
It was something more primordial than the Heavenly Dao.
Something closer to the very origin... than the Heavenly Dao.
Yuanshi's gaze trembled slightly.
Then, a thought slowly rose from the depths of his heart, beyond his control.
Pangu and the Heavenly Dao... which was stronger?!
The very emergence of this thought startled Yuanshi himself.
After all, throughout all ages, every living being had recognized the Heavenly Dao as supreme.
After Hongjun achieved Heavenly Dao Fusion, the Heavenly Dao had become the single most powerful existence within the Primordial World Heaven and Earth.
Whether Sages or primordial Daluo Golden Immortals, before the Heavenly Dao, they were merely ants whose existence it permitted.
This was an iron law that had stood unshaken through countless ages.
But now...
Yuanshi's gaze tightened slightly.
The Dao Gu Changqing had comprehended was not the Heavenly Dao, nor was it any