Although the winner had yet to be truly decided, it was already clear which of the two was stronger.
"Now is the moment!"
Boundless killing intent pressed down until the firmament rumbled.
Countless living beings in the Big Dipper Star Domain lay prostrate on the ground, terrified and uneasy.
Great fissures appeared one after another, stretching into the Outer Regions and swallowing countless stars.
Within the Firmament, the Divine Ruins, the Reincarnation Sea, and the other Forbidden Zones, the Supremes who had restrained their murderous intent and watched coldly from beginning to end, waiting for an opportunity, growled.
Without hesitation, they launched a lethal strike at Gai Jiuyou and the Golden Crow Quasi-Emperor, who had been battered bloody by endless tribulation rays, their bodies covered in cracks and utterly weakened.
"Roar... roar..."
Terrifying Dao waves tore through the void, one after another.
Carrying unparalleled power, they shot straight toward the Cosmic Frontier, seeking to kill Gai Jiuyou and the Golden Crow Quasi-Emperor outright.
Clang!
Just then.
The tolling of a bell resounded throughout heaven and earth.
An enormous Ancient Bell spanned the sky, emerging from nothingness.
Its entire surface gleamed brilliantly, chaos surged, Xuanhuang swirled around it, and spacetime laws swept forth, cutting off every attack.
Dazzling light and radiance blossomed there, too brilliant to look at directly.
Every Dao wave was intercepted, and countless stars collapsed.
The sight left onlookers profoundly shaken.
"Hum..."
The great bell tolled sonorously, shaking heaven and earth and altering the paths of the sun, moon, and stars.
As though it had existed since time immemorial, it floated there, coursing with unfathomable power.
The Supremes' expressions changed.
"Eastern Emperor-"
None of them had expected the Eastern Emperor to intervene at this moment.
And he had actually protected Gai Jiuyou. Was he truly unafraid that Gai