Boom!
The axe descended.
Heaven and earth fell silent.
The myriad Daos sank into oblivion.
Even the River of Time stopped flowing completely at that moment.
The Heavenly Dao Incarnation stretched out both hands, trying to block the axe.
But what the axe's edge carried was the very beginning of Pangu's Heaven-Opening.
It was not power.
It was not a divine ability.
It was a redefinition of "existence."
Wherever the axe's edge passed.
The heavenly Dao laws were annihilated one after another.
The Heavenly Dao's origin shattered inch by inch.
That boundless golden body seemed to be stripped away at its very root.
"No!"
The Heavenly Dao Incarnation let out one final roar.
"I am the Heavenly Dao!"
"I cannot lose!"
"All things in heaven and earth are under my control!"
"You ants, what gives you the right to defy me?!"
Gu Changqing did not answer.
He merely poured his final wisp of strength into the divine axe.
"Because we are living beings."
"Because we can die."
"Because we can lose."
"That is why we know what it means to live."
"But you..."
"You have never lived."
Crack!
The divine axe completed its descent.
The Heavenly Dao Incarnation was cleaved in two through the center of his brow.
A brilliant golden light shot skyward from within his body.
Countless scenes seemed to flicker within that golden light.
The first opening of the Primordial World.
The birth of all things.
The Three Clans contending for supremacy.
The clash of Witch and Demon.
The rise of humans.
Countless living beings were born, died, reincarnated, and struggled between heaven and earth.
The Heavenly Dao's origin did not contain only cold rules.
It also carried the memories of the Primordial World across hundreds of millions of years.
It could have become the order that