Chaos mist swirled, ghosts wailed and gods howled, and scenes of mountains of corpses and seas of blood kept appearing before their eyes, leaving them dazed.
But neither Taiyi nor Duan De hesitated. They followed the Devouring Heaven Demon Jar resolutely.
Soon, they passed through the chaos mist and reached the end of the passage.
The rippling emerald waters of the lake were visible in the distance.
Buzz!
It was as though it had fulfilled its mission.
The Jar Body and Pottery Lid of the Devouring Heaven Demon Jar separated.
They hovered above Taiyi's and Duan De's heads respectively.
"Whew, we're finally out!"
Duan De breathed a sigh of relief, but his eyes suddenly widened. "Immeasurable bloody Heavenly Venerable, is that... Xuanhuang Mother Qi?"
Above them lay a vast shadow, dense as mountains and heavy as clouds, hazy and indistinct in shades of black and yellow. It seemed a single wisp of its mist could crush a mountain ridge, its weight so immense it felt suffocating.
They had not touched it or truly encountered it, yet they could already barely withstand it.
Its overwhelming might pressed down on them until they could hardly breathe.
"It really is Xuanhuang Mother Qi!"
Taiyi's gaze burned.
He immediately recognized it as Xuanhuang Qi.
The nameless was the beginning of heaven and earth, and was the Dao. The named was the mother of all things, and was heaven and earth.
Xuanhuang was the essence of heaven and earth, the mother qi of all things, a sacred substance for tempering all tangible matter, and exceedingly rare!
Normally, supreme powerhouses searched for it by every means, yet rarely found any. But there was so much here. If word spread, countless powerhouses and forces throughout the world would surely go mad.
"Immeasurable Heavenly Venerable, neither we nor