Just as his gaze turned beyond the heavens.
Suddenly...
Heaven and earth fell silent, clouds and rosy mists rolling backward!
Just as the Great Violet Luo Heaven Palace stood condemned by a thousand fingers and its dao grounds were on the verge of collapse, before a voice had spoken or a figure appeared, an anomaly had already arisen beyond the heavens—
The sea of stars was like a mirror. The stars of countless realms had actually frozen all at once, no longer turning in their orbits.
The winds and clouds of Jiuxiao seemed to sense something and ceased without prior agreement. Bolts of immortal lightning quietly lay low; even cultivators of boundless who cultivated the Lightning Dao did not dare let out the slightest thunderclap. For above that vault of heaven, a rift was opening!
It was not shattering, but actively making way for some existence.
Between collapse and reforging, the vault of heaven slowly split open into a vast chasm. A Primordial Chaos Rift spanning hundreds of millions of miles burst open with a roar, reaching straight into the Chaos Deep Space.
Chaos lightning surged forth, yet all of it perished at the rift's edge. The Great Dao Rules automatically gave way; even supreme karma was crushed until it warped and collapsed!
From within that rift, a dilapidated hundred-zhang skiff slowly sailed out. It was as tiny as a speck of dust in the Immortal Realm, yet its bearing was that of an epochal warship. It drifted leisurely from the other shore of chaos, as if sailing upstream along the River of Time, causing the rules of eternity to change course for it.
The boat's hull emerged, weathered and mottled, as though it had crossed from an ancient epoch into the present, carrying the lingering radiance of the Great