"Surprised?"
Zhao Gongming stood within the purple-gray Divine Realm, his bloodstained robes snapping in the wind, twenty-four dark gleams rising and falling in his eyes.
The moment he spoke, Guangchengzi and the others felt their Primordial Spirits sink.
It was as though twenty-four layers of worlds, not yet formed, were pressing down upon their Dao hearts.
Chijingzi went deathly pale, the Yin-Yang Mirror in his palm humming low again and again.
"Your Dao foundation was clearly shattered!"
"All the better that it shattered."
Zhao Gongming slowly raised his hand and curled his five fingers into a fist.
Behind him, twenty-four Seas of Bitterness surged at once, embryonic worlds emerging one layer after another.
"From this day forward, I, Zhao Gongming, cast aside the old Immortal Dao you revere as your foundation."
Guangchengzi's eyelids twitched violently.
That aura was utterly unfamiliar.
There was no Jade Purity Immortal Light, no Shangqing sword intent, nor any of the fluctuations of laws commonly found in the Primordial World's Immortal Dao.
Yet it was terrifyingly heavy.
As though a new path had been forcibly carved out from the depths of flesh and blood.
"Zhao Gongming, you dare use heretical arts to ruin Jade Void's grand plan? You cannot be allowed to live today!"
Guangchengzi shouted fiercely, "Junior brothers, form the array!"
The immortals all channeled their magical power at once.
The Heaven-Flipping Seal, Yin-Yang Mirror, and Nine Dragon Divine Fire Cover lit up in succession.
But in the next instant, the surrounding purple-gray Dao patterns abruptly tightened.
The Primordial Divine Realm sealed off the karma of heaven and earth, and the phantom of the Twenty-Four Worlds behind Zhao Gongming pressed down with it.
The Jade Purity Immortal Light immediately grew sluggish.
Chijingzi's expression changed drastically.
He was just about to deploy the Yin-Yang Mirror when