With a thunderous boom, the void warped in an instant.
Li Qingyue swung the pitch-black Black Coffin and smashed it forward.
Like a streak of black light, it was utterly unaffected by the Replica Emperor Weapon's restraint.
As though it could not even feel the Replica Emperor Weapon's suppressive power, it pierced the void at tremendous speed.
It slammed into the Replica Emperor Weapon.
"Dong!"
An earthshaking boom erupted, piercing everyone's eardrums.
The surrounding Dao Palace and Four Extremes Realm experts all shuddered, thin trickles of blood seeping from their ears.
Some of the weaker cultivators were knocked flat by the sound of the collision alone, bleeding from all seven orifices, their eyes filled with terror.
"Crack, crack, crack..."
Then came a terrifying series of shattering sounds.
It sounded as though an exceptionally hard treasure was breaking apart.
Everyone instinctively looked up at the sound.
"I told you it was impossible!"
"That Black Coffin must have shattered!"
"Still, being shattered by a Replica Emperor Weapon was a worthy end for that Black Coffin!"
"..."
At the sound of shattering, some people blurted out their thoughts.
Their gazes swept across the scene.
But the next moment, everyone froze, their eyes widening as they stared into the void in disbelief.
There, the Black Coffin, two or three meters tall, remained perfectly intact, without so much as a mark on it.
It hung across the sky like a black mountain.
Instead, the Replica Emperor Weapon that had suppressed heaven and earth had been brutally smashed backward.
Worse still, fine cracks had appeared across the Replica Emperor Weapon.
The Nine-Story Pagoda looked ready to fall apart.
Had it not been for that trace of the Emperor's Imprint, it would likely have shattered already.
Everyone stood stupefied, then erupted into cries of disbelief.
"How is