"Since you chose to strike, prepare to pay the price!"
A cool, unfathomable voice rang out, calm yet majestic, like a Celestial Emperor whose words were heavenly law, commanding obedience from every Dao throughout the heavens.
"Hm?" A sudden chill gripped Ao Sheng and Tai Shi, as though some primordial beast had fixed its gaze on them. Instinctively, they sensed a lethal threat.
Before they could understand it, Yun Ying had already struck.
The sword rang out like an ancient battle hymn, piercing eternal time and space and stirring waves in the River of Time. The myriad Daos resonated, evolving into all creation. Beneath the boundless mortal world, reincarnation reappeared, remaking the heavens and myriad worlds.
It was a sword finger, crystalline as jade yet wreathed in peerless sharpness, like an imperial sword drawn from its sheath, radiating a transcendent aura.
Whoosh!
The River of Time surged into view within the universe, vast and limitless, like a mythical dragon coiling high above the heavens.
Yet this dragon became a divine ring of time, encircling the sword finger and resonating with it.
Clang!
The sword finger shone, an unsurpassed aura erupting from it and shaking the Immortal Domain.
Blazing sword light rose, its crystalline radiance illuminating past, present, and future. Time surged, and everyone saw the rainbow-like sword light split in two and travel upstream along the veins of time and the tracks of karma.
At that moment, both Immortal Kings, Ao Sheng and Tai Shi, braced as though facing a formidable enemy. Every hair on their bodies stood on end, and immense terror flooded their hearts.
They had attained Immortal King Fruition ages ago and roamed the Immortal Domain unchallenged. Who could threaten their lives?
Yet now, they sensed lethal killing intent with utter clarity. They might perish!
Roar!
Almost