Rumble...
The universe's star rivers thundered, billions of storms roared, and the aura of Supremes swept across the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands.
All living beings seemed to see twenty terrifying silhouettes of light appear among the universe's star rivers, suppressing the Eight Desolations and branding their marks upon space and time across the eternal ages.
At that moment, heaven collapsed and earth split, ghosts wailed and gods howled. Countless galaxies shattered, light rained across the sky, and the auras of the Supremes and Ancient Emperors seemed to fuse into one.
Even the Demon Emperor's killing intent, which had frozen endless star rivers, was cut off by that aura.
Twenty figures as enormous as stars stood throughout the starry sky. With heaven and earth as their board and the Supremes as their pieces, they formed an utterly terrifying formation.
An aura that sealed the years and severed the eternal ages began to coalesce.
"Those are Supremes!"
"Twenty Supremes have emerged and ascended to the pinnacle of heaven and earth! Using heaven and earth as their canvas, they've engraved all manner of emperor script and sealed everything!"
"The battle between the Demon Emperor and the forbidden zones is about to erupt in full!"
"Are they trying to destroy the world?"
"This aura... is this the supreme Nine Secrets: Zu?"
"Heavens... twenty Ancient Venerables and Ancient Emperors have joined forces to manifest the supreme Nine Secrets: Zu! They're going to seal the Demon Emperor!"
"It's over... the Supremes have emerged. A great upheaval will erupt, and the Dark Era will return."
"Will this lifetime... see the end of the world?"
"With twenty Supremes and Ancient Emperors joining forces, the universe itself will truly be destroyed!"
"..."
Sensing the Supremes' terrifying auras, all living beings throughout the universe's myriad domains sank beneath a