The Sky-Opening Axe Intent unleashed by the Pangu Banner stopped.
A purple-gray sword gleam barred its path.
There was no thunder.
No eruption of Sage Might.
Not even a trace of aftershock from colliding Dao laws.
The axe phantom, which embodied the Pangu Banner's slaughter Origin, had barely touched the sword gleam when a gray line split open down its center.
Yuanshi Tianzun's pupils abruptly contracted.
He saw it with perfect clarity.
That sword strike had not cut the axe's edge.
It had severed the karma between the Sky-Opening Axe Intent and the heavens and earth of the Primordial World!
The gray line spread rapidly.
Within the Pangu Banner, lingering images of the fall of the three thousand Demon Gods began to crumble.
The Heaven-Opening Divine Fiendish Qi peeled away inch by inch, turning into Chaos Pure Qi and vanishing above Guanjiangkou.
Under the Sages' gazes, the enormous axe, powerful enough to tear apart a greater world, silently disintegrated.
The Pangu Banner still trembled and hummed in Yuanshi's palm.
But the axe phantom was gone.
Heaven and earth were terrifyingly quiet.
The purple-gray sword gleam did not stop.
It passed through the chaos qi and swept across the Pangu Banner's fabric.
Hiss!
A karmic crack appeared across the banner's fabric.
Yuanshi Tianzun raised his hand to erase it with Yuqing Sage Power.
The next instant, his hand stopped.
Even Yuqing Sage Power could not suppress that crack for the moment.
The sword gleam also grazed the Nine Dragon Agarwood Carriage.
Its canopy dimmed.
The nine Yuqing Dragon Shadows growled together, the spiritual light in their eyes fading by three-tenths.
The look in Yuanshi Tianzun's sage eyes finally changed.
The sword gleam had already reached him.
He summoned his sage power.
His sage power did not respond.
He drew upon the