At that moment,
The air around the Luo River Ancient Mine fell silent. The Jiang Family and Ji Family of Desolate Antiquity, along with the Yaoguang Holy Land, had all realized the gravity of the situation.
"Withdraw the Emperor Weapons!"
The mighty figures of all three factions chose to recall their Emperor Weapons at the same time.
They now understood that the Ancient Emperor Weapon below already had an owner. Something terrifying lurked underground. If they did not stop now, they would bring down a calamity that blotted out the heavens.
If they continued courting death by coveting that Ancient Emperor Weapon, all of Qingyun Province would cease to exist!
They had chosen to back down.
However,
The being within the Luo River Ancient Mine clearly had no intention of letting them off so easily.
A roar that could shatter the river of stars erupted from underground. Golden light surged within the mine, condensing into a terrifying divine radiance that tore at heaven and earth. Bearing the will to annihilate everything, it blasted toward the sky!
"Is this the end of the world?"
The cultivators below felt their scalps prickle.
If that strike landed, the earth for tens of thousands of miles around would likely be blasted into oblivion!
No one would survive!
"You dare!"
The two great families of Desolate Antiquity and the Yaoguang Holy Land, who had already recalled their Emperor Weapons, were both shocked and furious.
They had never imagined their opponent would still refuse to let them go!
The mighty figures of the two great families and the Yaoguang Holy Land immediately prepared to unleash their Emperor Weapons again to resist!
The Emperor Weapons were about to clash once more, laying waste to ten thousand miles and leaving not a blade of grass alive!
"We're finished!"
On the wasteland, everyone-from Holy Land elders and venerable elders of great sects to the unaffiliated cultivators fortunate enough to have survived-was terrified out of their wits, their hearts and souls torn apart by fear!
Some cultivators had already closed their eyes in despair.
At that hair's-breadth moment!
The woman in plain robes moved.
She did not confront the Ancient Emperor Weapon's destructive edge directly. Her clear eyes shifted slightly, settling on the Hengyu Furnace and Void Mirror high in the sky, where they were struggling against the pressure of the Primordial Ancient Emperor Weapon.
She extended a slender, jade-like finger and lightly tapped the air.
Hum-
The Hengyu Furnace and Void Mirror shuddered violently at the same time.
The mighty figures of the Jiang Family and Ji Family discovered, to their horror, that they had instantly lost most of their control over the two Emperor Weapons. A higher order of Dao resonance had drawn them into motion.
The Hengyu Furnace spewed solar true fire a hundred times fiercer than before, while the Void Mirror distorted space and time, slicing and folding space.
Guided by the mysterious woman's fingertip, the two supreme forces originating from Extreme Dao Emperor Weapons intertwined perfectly. They formed a chaos-colored divine chain that, though launched later, arrived first, precisely coiling around and binding the destructive divine radiance unleashed by the Ancient Emperor Weapon below.
Boom!!!
An indescribable collision erupted above the highest heavens, and a storm swept across hundreds of thousands of miles. Had the Hengyu Furnace, Void Mirror, and Dragon-Patterned Cauldron not blocked the aftershocks, everything below would have been reduced to dust!
The chaos-colored divine chain locked tightly around the Ancient Emperor Weapon's divine radiance, forcibly grinding it out of existence in the void.
The Ancient Emperor Weapon below let out a shrill, defiant howl. Its golden light flickered, as though it still wished to fight.
At that moment,
The goddess in plain robes slowly turned her head. Her gaze pierced layer after layer of the earth's crust, looking straight into the depths of the earth's core.
Her cherry-red lips parted slightly. Across that vast distance, she spoke toward the source of the overwhelming, savage might in an extremely ancient language with obscure syllables.
"@#￥%...&(...%￥#..."
She was communicating with the Primordial Race underground.
No one in the present age could understand what she was saying. That ancient language had already been on the verge of disappearing during the Primordial Era.
The being buried deep underground, controlling the Primordial Ancient Emperor Weapon, seemed to understand her Primordial Divine Language. It unleashed terrifying fluctuations of divine consciousness, even more enraged than before yet tinged with apprehension. Like ten thousand demons shrieking, they made the depths of the earth rumble.
In the end, however, the other party compromised, slowly reining in the aura that had dominated heaven and earth.
The Primordial Ancient Emperor Weapon, which had only just emerged, fell silent once more. The overwhelming, savage aura underground also receded like a tide, returning to the deathly stillness of the dark abyss.
After doing all this, the goddess in plain robes seemed to have expended a great deal of energy. Even the clear radiance veiling her face dimmed somewhat. She glanced around, her gaze seeming to pierce endless time and space, carrying a trace of sorrow.
With everything done, she returned the Hengyu Furnace and Void Mirror, then departed without looking back.
"Senior, please stay!"
The leader of a great sect from the Northern Region could not help shouting.
"Please, Saint, impart the Dao and bestow your arts!"
"The Yaoguang Holy Land invites the goddess to visit! We wish to hear the Saint's teachings!"
Countless excited cries rose across the wasteland at once.
This was a living Saint from ancient times!
The Yaoguang Holy Land's supreme elder, Wanchu's Saint Lord, the Ji Family's mighty figures, the leaders of the Northern Region's great sects, and even the old patriarch of the Luo Family-these towering figures, whose slightest stamp of a foot would normally make the Eastern Wasteland tremble three times, had all lost their usual composure.
In an age when even Severing the Dao was difficult, the appearance of an ancient Saint undoubtedly offered a thread of hope to these Holy Lord level figures trapped at the very pinnacle of the mighty realm.
These normally imposing mighty figures now streaked like meteors through the still-turbulent heavens as Divine Rainbows, their speed pushed to its limit, crossing a thousand miles in an instant.
They became streaks of Divine Rainbow that tore through the sky, chasing recklessly in the direction where the goddess had disappeared.
Yet,
No matter how they activated secret arts and burned divine power, even using spatial Magical Treasures for short-range displacement, it was all futile.
That ancient goddess was simply too fast. With a single step, she left endless mountains and rivers behind her, truly shrinking the earth to inches! It was countless times more powerful than the flight and earth-traversing abilities of Holy Lord level figures.
This lay far beyond the understanding of cultivators of the present age!
Even so, those Holy Lord level great figures refused to give up and continued chasing.
Their future paths depended on this!
"A world away within arm's reach! This is true earth-shrinking, treading through the void as though walking on level ground!"
A venerable elder of the Ji Family, white-haired and white-bearded and proficient in spatial secret arts, gazed at the empty horizon ahead. Shock and disappointment filled his face as he murmured to himself.
"We cultivators cannot even catch the wind left in an ancient Saint's wake," a cultivator from a great sect sighed.
Of course,
For the vast majority of the cultivators present, the only feeling in their hearts was relief at having survived the catastrophe.
Tonight was destined to be sleepless!
Emperor Weapons, normally treasures that guarded entire clans and were rarely seen even once in ten thousand years, had appeared four at a time tonight! Among them was a mysterious Ancient Emperor Weapon whose true form had never even been revealed.
Not to mention that ancient goddess who had emerged from Divine
Source...
One could imagine that once word of tonight's events spread, it would shatter the heavens like a stone splitting the sky. Enormous waves would sweep through the entire Northern Region, and even the whole Eastern Wasteland!
"That was terrifying. Little Yue, we'd better stop rushing off to join every commotion," Luo Qingluan said, still shaken.
After witnessing tonight's series of upheavals, the Luo Family's eldest young lady, who normally feared neither heaven nor earth, had become much more subdued.
At that moment,
Duan De had popped out again at some point. The Black Broken Bowl above his head emitted a faint dark glow. Gazing in the direction where the goddess had vanished, his tiny, bean-sized eyes flashed brilliantly, and he could not help saying,
"Merciless Heavenly Venerable! A living, breathing ancient Saint! What an immense blessing and opportunity! This humble Daoist has spent his whole life digging up graves, and this is the first time I've seen a living ancestor walk out of Divine Source! What a shame, what a shame-I didn't even get to touch the hem of her robe..."
He beat his chest and stamped his feet, utterly vexed.
But then his plump form began looking furtively around again, as though he were considering whether he might pick up a trace of Dao markings left by the Saint, or some fragments of that ninety-foot mass of Divine Source.
"Daoist Duan, there's no need to look. The moment that ninety-foot mass of Divine Source shattered, the Primordial Goddess absorbed all of it. Not so much as a hair was left," Luo Yue said, unable to resist dampening his hopes.
Although she had been rather keen on that Divine Source herself...
But pies did not just fall from the sky!
Plop~
Just then,
A stone suddenly fell from the sky and landed right in front of Luo Yue with a plop.
"Hm?"
"Huh!?"
Luo Yue failed to register it at first glance, but on the second, her eyes went wide.
Holy crap, a Heaven-Mending Stone in the wild!