The deathly still, boundless primeval Ancient Plain of the Fourteenth Layer had gone undisturbed for ages.
This dim world, slumbering for ten thousand years, had always maintained its eternal desolation and silence.
Yet the instant Emperor Star finished speaking, the deathly silence that had congealed for ages was utterly shattered.
Heaven and earth abruptly changed, and the resonances of the Dao trembled.
The ancient resonances of the origin Dao, which had floated quietly in the void and long since approached stagnation, now stirred wildly and shook violently.
Across the vast Ancient Plain, primeval fissures stretching tens of thousands of miles began to seethe.
Deep within the fissures, the gray power of remnant Daos, deposited over hundreds of millions of years, boiled and surged one after another like awakening ancient beasts, sweeping in all directions.
Close behind came a supreme divine might, vast and boundless, spanning heaven and earth.
This aura slowly spread from the farthest reaches of the world, sweeping in successive waves across tens of thousands of miles with overwhelming pressure.
It differed from the brutal, domineering killing aura of ordinary powerhouses, and was utterly unlike the cold, sinister aura of death surrounding Di Lige on the thirteenth floor.
This was a supreme aura belonging solely to the paramount Water Element Great Way.
Deep as still waters and towering as a mountain, it was like the sea and the heavens, boundless in breadth and heavy with the weight of ages.
Seemingly gentle and peaceful, nourishing all things without a sound, it concealed the absolute power to suppress the heavens and annihilate every art.
As just a trace of its aura swept across the world, every origin law of the Fourteenth Layer bowed and trembled, quivering in submission.
An invisible suppression of laws enveloped tens of thousands of miles of