"Rumble..."
As that sound resounded through heaven and earth, the endless aura of nirvana along the entire Road to Immortality instantly boiled over.
At that moment, time fell into nirvana, space fell into nirvana, and even the myriad daos of the heavens became part of the annihilation great dao.
An earth-shaking aura of a Great Emperor erupted like a volcano, sweeping through heaven and earth in an instant.
"Hum..."
The instant that Great Emperor's aura crushed down upon the world, the hundreds of kneeling Quasi-Emperors shuddered in unison.
Then their bodies cracked silently, turning insubstantial little by little until they all rose as mist of nirvana.
"What?"
"They... all perished?"
Seeing those hundreds of Quasi-Emperors dissolve into endless mist of nirvana and vanish completely, everyone trembled.
Hundreds of Quasi-Emperors had all fallen?
Yet just as everyone reeled in shock, that endless mist of nirvana poured into Annihilation Heavenly Venerable's phantom.
"Hum!"
Annihilation Heavenly Venerable's phantom rapidly solidified, as though a peerless Heavenly Venerable had awakened from the river of years, pierced through time, and arrived in this age.
"It's the annihilation great dao! It's Nine Secret: Bing!"
"They weren't living beings, but weapons Annihilation Heavenly Venerable forged with the annihilation great dao!"
"And a contingency for his revival."
"No wonder..."
"So that was how it was?"
Watching those hundreds of Quasi-Emperors collapse into the mighty power of nirvana and merge into Annihilation Heavenly Venerable's figure, everyone understood.
No wonder those Quasi-Emperors had survived from the Mythological Era until now.
Those Quasi-Emperors could no longer be considered alive.
More than ten million years had passed since the Mythological Era. Across such an immense span, how could they have survived unless they were never living beings to begin with?
"That's right... one of Blood Phoenix Mountain's ancestors seemed to have created a