Hongjun withdrew his gaze.
Those eyes, which had once held the birth and destruction of the entire Primordial World and reflected the turning of the Heavenly Dao, now held only the stillness of stagnant water.
No, that was not stillness.
It was a sinister, icy darkness suppressed to its utmost limit, almost enough to swallow all of Chaos.
A long, long time passed.
Hongjun spoke.
"Let's go."
Two words, devoid of emotion, yet carrying an irrevocable resolve that brooked no argument.
At those words, Heavenly Venerable Yuanshi, whom Laozi had just helped to his feet, his Dao Heart shattered and his aura utterly diminished, froze, as did the deathly pale Laozi.
Go?
Just leave like this?
All the Xuanmen Saints had come, along with the Elder of Chaos. They had arrived in such formidable force, bristling with aggression, only to slink away like this?
The fiercer their swagger had been when they arrived...
The more thoroughly disgraced and wretched they were now.
Endless resentment and venom surged into Laozi's heart.
He opened his mouth, wanting to say something more.
But before he could speak again...
Hongjun abruptly swept his great sleeve.
Boom!
Endless heavenly radiance poured mightily from his sleeve, its brilliance eclipsing even the sun and stars high above the Nine Heavens, illuminating the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths, the Three Realms and Six Paths in an instant!
The next moment...
Enveloped in that dazzling heavenly radiance, Hongjun, Laozi, Yuanshi, Jieyin, and even the Elder of Chaos, who had never truly acted from beginning to end, vanished completely from Heaven and Earth.
They had arrived with the Heavenly Dao at their side, their might overwhelming the world.
Yet they departed in such haste that they did not even leave behind a single parting platitude.
With their departure, the supreme