The ordinary people who had been facing separation by life and death just moments before stared at one another for a long while before finally realizing that the crisis that had erupted so suddenly had vanished just as inexplicably.
For a time, cries and shouts of joy mingled with tears could be heard everywhere.
Even many cultivators who were usually quite composed wailed like ordinary people at that moment.
In this world, only the handful of immortals frowned slightly.
An old man gazed absently at the sky for a moment and murmured:
"Why do I feel as though something is missing from this world?"
After murmuring those words, he released his divine sense and carefully probed again, trying to discover exactly what this world had lost.
Yet even after sensing for a long while, he could not discover what had disappeared.
This question did not arise in that elderly Heavenly Immortal's mind alone.
At that very moment, at least several dozen people harbored similar doubts.
However, these people were not beneath the same sky as that elderly Heavenly Immortal.
Just moments before, similar Great Dao tremors had appeared in dozens of small worlds almost simultaneously.
These inexplicable Great Dao tremors had come without cause and departed just as mysteriously.
No living beings in the affected small worlds had perished as a result.
Ordinary cultivators had not noticed anything unusual either.
Only a few spirit beasts and immortals with keen senses had vaguely detected something.
Yet there were no Golden Immortals in these small worlds.
Although they had sensed something, they did not know exactly what the worlds they inhabited had lost.
While those immortals stood lost in thought, Xu Changxing was doing his utmost to maintain the great formation before him within the Tianyan Sect.
Just moments before, countless fragments