Before the Elder of Chaos could argue back, Gu Changqing had already made another move.
With bold, carefree abandon, he tipped his head back and gulped down several mouthfuls of fine wine from his gourd.
The rich aroma of wine wafted everywhere, leaving countless creatures spellbound with longing.
Then Gu Changqing seemed to grow even drunker. His body swayed sharply, as though he might collapse drunkenly in midair at any moment.
Yet his seemingly disorderly hands formed one profound, intricate mudra seal after another before his chest.
"Hm?"
At the sight, Hongjun and the Elder of Chaos stiffened almost simultaneously!
Two terrifying auras, powerful enough to overturn the entire Primordial World, instantly locked onto Gu Changqing. The surrounding space shattered inch by inch beneath their might!
Wariness!
Unprecedented wariness!
To them, Gu Changqing's actions could only mean he was about to unleash some earth-shattering offensive art!
But in the next instant...
The devastating attack they expected never came.
Instead, as those wondrous mudra seals took shape, an image materialized out of thin air beneath the "heavenly net" woven from the laws of the three thousand great daos high above!
That image was vast, desolate, and ancient!
It brimmed with the chaos and deathly stillness of the dawn of creation!
"This is..."
"What place is that? What a barren aura!"
"Why does it feel... as though the laws there are utterly incompatible with the Primordial World?"
Filled with confusion, all living beings of the Primordial World gazed in bewilderment and uncertainty at the picture slowly unfolding overhead.
Nuwa and Houtu also knitted their delicate brows. They could sense that the image contained an aura more ancient and more primordial than the Primordial World itself.
On Kunlun Mountain and Shouyang Mountain, however, the primordial spirits of Heavenly Venerable Yuanshi and Laozi shuddered