Houtu's utterly certain challenge rang out between heaven and earth like an explosive thunderclap.
For a moment, her words suppressed the panic and terror of quadrillions of living beings.
Countless beings looked up and saw Houtu's peerlessly magnificent, overwhelmingly imposing figure.
Yet her words also left all living beings briefly dazed and bewildered.
Hongjun?!
Was the Hongjun Sage Houtu spoke of the... Dao Ancestor Hongjun they knew?
Indeed!
At this moment, all living beings had begun to harbor that very doubt!
How could this be possible!
They could hardly be blamed for entertaining such an absurd thought.
After all, Houtu's words meant... that Dao Ancestor Hongjun was the source of this world-destroying terror unfolding before them?
He had unleashed this apocalyptic catastrophe?
Countless beings' minds went blank, their thoughts all but grinding to a halt.
Why?
The Dao Ancestor was the Heavenly Dao Representative, the supreme guardian of order in the Primordial World. Why would he seek to destroy the world? It made no sense!
For a moment, a sense of disbelief even more absurd and more shattering to everything they believed than their fear of death enveloped every heart.
Yet before they could recover from their utter bewilderment and confusion...
The gray, decaying firmament high above suddenly... changed!
Endless celestial blossoms drifted wondrously down from the void, each containing the supreme truths of the Heavenly Dao.
Countless rays of auspicious divine light burst from the cracks in the firmament, illuminating the entire dim world with the brilliance of a blazing sun!
That familiar might, which overshadowed the ages, transcended the mortal realm, and even stood above all things in heaven and earth, erupted once more. In the blink of an eye, it surged through the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths, sweeping into every corner of the world.
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