That furious roar needed no explanation.
All living beings could hear it: Laozi's Sage Dao heart had been shaken tremendously.
At the same time, the spectacle around Laozi grew utterly terrifying.
As his immense might swept outward, countless divine peaks and towering mountains around Kunlun Mountain collapsed with thunderous crashes.
Dense cracks also appeared across the earth, like countless ravines stretching over its surface, a sight that made hearts tremble.
All living beings might not yet understand.
But Laozi knew perfectly well that his fury was not merely because he had lost all face and failed to block Gu Changqing's strike.
More importantly, at the very instant the Human Sect Stele shattered...
Laozi had clearly sensed that the Laws and Order and the divine essence of the Great Dao unique to the Human Sect, which he had spent countless epochs imprinting within it, had also fallen apart with those billions of fragments, utterly annihilated in the void!
It had not merely been a Spirit Treasure that carried fortune.
It had been the foundation of his Human Sect!
It had embodied the Dao lineage through which he, Taiqing Laozi, had established his sect in the Primordial World as a Sage!
Its foundation was utterly destroyed!
That meant that, from this day onward, his Human Sect had truly ceased to exist!
Henceforth, even if he, Taiqing Laozi, remained a lofty Heavenly Dao Sage, he had become rootless duckweed, without a foundation or a Dao lineage!
How could he bear it?!
It was worse than being killed!
"Gu! Chang! Qing!"
Laozi spat out each syllable. Even his Sage body trembled slightly, not from fear, but from fury pushed to its utmost extreme!
Boundless killing intent erupted from within him, becoming tangible, blood-red lightning that circled his body and tore through the Nine Heavens!