Time seemed to solidify at this moment. Every cultivator's gaze focused on that figure who had once commanded the winds and clouds, holding their breath as they awaited his reaction.
Slowly, Tai Xiao's hunched body began to straighten.
His movements were slow, yet carried an unstoppable resolve. When he raised his head, everyone involuntarily gasped.
Tai Xiao's forehead was covered in blood. The crimson liquid slowly flowed down the deep creases of his face, carving streaks across his pale features. Yet what truly chilled the heart was his gaze.
Beneath that bloodied forehead were a pair of indifferent eyes, stripped of all living emotion and touched by faint weariness. They were no longer those eyes that had once looked down upon the world, those eyes that had once gleamed with the high-spirited ambition to rival the Five Elements Dao Ancestor.
Those resolute, deeply etched eyes had now lost every trace of their sharpness.
At this moment, Tai Xiao's gaze swept across his surroundings, as if he were looking, yet as if he were not.
This sight made the hearts of the Three Clans' experts and even the immortals sink, as though struck by a heavy hammer. Such a contrast, such a transformation, was more soul-shaking than any words or attacks...
The pupils of the Ancient Emperor Clan cultivators twitched violently. They no longer attacked, nor did they speak.
Tai Xiao turned calmly and continued walking across the earth.
Suddenly—
A vast gale suddenly arose between heaven and earth. An immeasurable world crashed down from the void, and the instant it appeared, it suppressed the Heaven and Earth Origin of the entire Ancient Mirror Heavenly Domain!
Rumble...
"What thief is this?!" The immortals of the Three Clans grunted and retreated violently, their eyes splitting with rage and disbelief.
The cultivators of