Where was he?!
Laozi and Yuanshi were not the only ones asking that question.
Within Kunlun Mountain and throughout the Primordial World's universe, the same enormous question mark arose in the minds of every being watching the battle.
A living, breathing man, a peerless powerhouse who had just shattered the Human Sect Stele with a single slash.
Had he simply... evaporated into thin air beneath the world-destroying strike of two Sages?
No!
That was wrong!
Laozi's eyes blazed like torches as his Sage Divine Sense swept out, blanketing everything and scanning that expanse of void reduced to chaos again and again.
He tried to find the slightest trace of Gu Changqing within that raging storm of energy.
Even a wisp of remnant soul or a drop of blood essence would prove that his opponent had perished beneath his attack, body and Dao extinguished!
Yet there was nothing!
Nothing at all!
Aside from pure destruction and chaos, nothing remained in that region!
Unwilling to accept it, he scanned his surroundings with hatred and fury, searching for Gu Changqing.
But even after a long while, he found nothing!
"Impossible! Absolutely impossible!"
Laozi let out a low, defiant roar, looking utterly deranged.
How terrifying was a Sage's strike?
And this had been two Sages striking in fury!
Never mind Gu Changqing-even another Heavenly Dao Sage could not possibly have taken that blow head-on without suffering a scratch, much less vanished like this without leaving the slightest trace of his aura!
Elsewhere, Yuanshi had also frozen.
He, too, released his divine sense, frantically probing every faint thread of energy in heaven and earth, trying to locate the figure he hated to his very bones.
But after some time, he was forced to accept a cruel fact as well.
Gu Changqing's aura seemed to have