The gourd blazed with black light.
An ancient universe surged out, floating there.
Endless star domains glittered, arranging and combining there into a terrifying Immortal Sword that tore through the heavens and slashed out repeatedly.
At that moment, its speed reached the absolute limit, surpassing the old Ancestor King's perception.
"Boom... boom..." The old Ancestor King of Spirit Valley screamed.
His primordial spirit suffered repeated grievous blows, its light dimming.
"Ignorant Human Race, before a god, what does it matter even if you possess the sturdiest Saint Shell?"
The old Ancestor King went mad, staking his life on one last attempt. "To me, it is merely a stinking skin, merely a waystation, merely somewhere to stop briefly. I shall seize it for my own use now. Perhaps I can defy heaven and change my fate."
A blaze of light appeared.
An entirely new old Ancestor King of Spirit Valley stood in the void, ignoring the Immortal-Slaying Gourd and the Holy Light Body.
Instead, he lunged straight at Taiyi.
He seemed cast from light, impossible to look at directly.
The entire world rumbled. All manner of Heavenly Dao patterns appeared, and immortality, eternity, and the everlasting ages all seemed on the verge of destruction.
This was Spirit Valley's most powerful forbidden technique. Like a god descending into the mortal world, it specifically severed primordial spirits and seized others' Dao bodies-a terrifying secret technique that ruined people's foundations.
"Buzz!"
The void seemed to have been locked in place.
Taiyi could not move at all.
But a trace of mockery flashed through his eyes.
He neither dodged nor evaded, offering no resistance whatsoever as he let that immortal light of the primordial spirit fly toward him.
"That hateful Human Race is dead!"
"What does it matter if it is a Saint Shell? It