At the highest reaches of the sky, so high that countless people couldn't even see it, an indescribable, massive shadow slowly descended.
The shadow was boundless, and the moment it appeared, it covered all the light in the heavens and realms.
It almost stole all the light between heaven and earth.
Only a few great cultivators could see clearly that this shadow came from that boundless long river, the shadow of that giant palm!
The boundless shadow covered far more than just this one space-time. In the eyes of several Good Fortune Golden Immortals, a large area of the long river, with this space-time as its core, was swept and covered by the shadow.
It stole all the light!
Looking up at the heights at this moment, the six great suns had disappeared at some unknown time, and eternal darkness descended.
Within the darkness, there seemed to be billions of dragon roars and tiger howls, the furious roars of savage beasts.
All living beings in the continents, seas, and even the realms, felt uneasy and manic in an instant. Their hearts palpitated and trembled, as if they had a premonition of the coming of death!
"Hmm?!"
Yang Jian had not yet recovered from the shock when he suddenly felt something. He turned back abruptly, his dragon-shaped vertical pupil in the center of his brow wide open. Using the faint light of the purple sun, he saw the scene in the darkness.
He saw an extremely terrifying scene!
Spiritual Qi (Lingji) is the root of all things, the source of heaven and earth, the creator of all living beings, and participates in the most basic composition of all matter.
The true riot of spiritual qi unleashed a storm beyond anyone's imagination.
His divine eyes could penetrate the haze and break through the darkness. As he gazed into the distance, he saw countless streams of various colors rising from the boundless earth beneath the long sky.
Faintly, he saw countless 'lines'!
Invisible and intangible, without color or shadow, yet truly existing, he didn't know if they were the constructs of laws or the 'lines' generated by Dao essence!
At this moment, the endless 'lines' that seemed to run through every moment of heaven and earth were wriggling and trembling frantically, even contracting violently towards the boundless sky.
This scene was extremely similar to a mortal fisherman, suddenly pulling the fishing line when a fish was hooked!
Mortal fishermen fish.
What is He fishing for?!
A chill ran through Yang Jian's heart.
In the next instant, earth-shattering screams rang out one after another in the continents and the endless islands of the four seas.
"What is this thing?"
"No, my magic power, my magic power!"
"Ah!!!"
"Ancestor, no, don't!"
"Sage, Sage!"
.......
In the dark depths, countless people screamed in terror, and panic spread throughout the world at an unimaginable speed.
Spreading with it was an indescribable great terror.
"Not good!"
In the mountains of the Northern Ju Continent, Zhulong suddenly let out a low roar and slumped to the ground.
In the darkness, his face was pale and bloodless: "How ruthless, how ruthless!"
His body trembled, both shocked and angry, but more than that, it was despair.
He had lived long enough and knew enough. He had not personally experienced the scene before him, but he had seen it too many times in the past.
This is the legendary,
Epoch Change, Opening Heaven Calamity!
But he didn't expect that the great destruction calamity of this Epoch would come so quickly…
Roar!
In the darkness, the earth was turned upside down, and everything was collapsing!
"Ah!"
A demonic figure soared into the sky from the roaring North Sea. He roared in shock and anger, venting everything frantically, but he still couldn't resist the indescribable great terror.
All his magic power and spiritual qi was forcibly extracted.
He watched helplessly as his realm fell, his primordial spirit decayed, and his physical body aged. Finally, in a roar of shock, anger, and unwillingness, he fell from the high sky.
Before he could land, he had already turned into dust and dissipated.
And the same scene happened simultaneously in Southern Zhan, Eastern Sheng, Western He, Northern Ju, the endless islands of the Four Seas, and even the Demon Realm, the Netherworld, and the Animal Path…
Whether they were cultivators or demon beasts.
Whether they were entry-level cultivators or great Yuanshen cultivators, their expressions changed drastically in this terrifying turmoil, and they smelled an extremely strong crisis of death.
For mortals, the terror of losing spiritual qi was far less terrifying than the collapse of the sky and the earth. The former was even difficult to perceive, while the latter could destroy them.
But for cultivators, this was an endless great terror.
For Yuanshen cultivators, no collapse of the sky or the earth could harm them in the slightest. However, the stripping of spiritual qi could cause them to fall in realm, lose their cultivation, and their Yuanshen to decay.
In the end, they would fall into becoming mortals.
And how could there be a mortal who lives for a thousand years in this world?
"I hate it!"
"Great thief, great thief! Don't even think about taking away my lifelong cultivation!"
"Demons, giant demons! You are the greatest demons in the world!"
Angry roars rose and fell, resounding through the heavens and the earth, echoing through the Zhou heavens. Many great cultivators, after being terrified, detonated their own Yuanshen in a desperate attempt to preserve their final dignity.
However, even with self-detonation, the omnipresent spiritual qi was still being stripped away.
And the true great terror was far more terrifying than what was happening to the cultivators by hundreds of millions of times!
"Ah!"
Above the long sky, in the hurricane, Yang Jian peered into the distance. His eyes were opened so wide that all three eyes were bleeding, his eye sockets were cracked, and the hand holding the three-pointed double-edged blade was trembling.
He wanted to attack, but the heaven and earth were vast, and everything was being destroyed. There was no target to attack at all…
Boom!
Boom!
Rumble!
In the darkness, the earth shook, the hurricane howled, the peaks trembled, and the mountains and forests quaked… Under the shroud of a mysterious and immeasurable power, strands of spiritual qi began to be stripped from all things.
It seemed to be only a moment, but the mountains had already turned into powder in the shaking, falling rustlingly. The birds and beasts within, in bursts of screams, were like falling into a high-speed rotating wheel of time.
Before the screams could fall, their corpses had already turned to ashes, disappearing into the hurricane along with the mountains.
Birds and beasts, vegetation, mud and rocks, mountains and rivers, lakes, waterfalls, the earth, and even the恒沙 (Ganges sands) stars in the boundless starry sea, all began to collapse and disintegrate in the inch-by-inch shaking.
It was as if the building blocks and sand table whose foundations had been removed had begun a great collapse!
Heaven and earth, great collapse!
"The birth and destruction of heaven and earth… Even after seeing such great power many times, my heart is still difficult to suppress."
Above the imperial court, the Azure Emperor murmured to himself, his heart also palpitating.
For existences like them, heaven and earth, and even the starry sea, could be destroyed by means, but it was absolutely impossible to do it so lightly.
A wave of the hand across the boundless void, the shadow flowing down not aimed at this void, could already destroy the heavens and the earth.
Such power was terrifying.
In their eyes, at this moment, it seemed that they could not hear the slightest cry, scream, or wail in the heaven and earth.
Only those wisps, strands, and paths of spiritual qi and primordial qi were slowly rising into the sky in this terrifying storm, intersecting with each other, and turning into mad dragons of unknown tens of millions of miles in length.
They were dancing wildly, roaring angrily, and wanted to boil away.
Buzz!
At this moment, the Golden Profound Emperors suddenly frowned and looked towards Southern Zhan. They saw that within the territory of the Great Zhou, dots of light suddenly appeared.
In the absolute silence, any point of light would be infinitely magnified. Some people looked over and saw that in the darkness, the lights were like beans. At first, there was only one point, but in a blink of an eye, there were thousands, millions, billions.
They were scattered like stars, as if the starry sea had reappeared.
Within the light, there were mountains, rivers, grass, trees, cities, and human settlements, as well as gods sitting in temples, whose figures and faces could not be seen.
Whoosh!
At the same time as the different divine lights rose, it was also when the gods in the imperial court above the Nine Heavens broke through their barriers and emerged.
"Eastern Pole, you are bold!"
The Golden Emperor was furious and shocked. The entire divine court had rebelled?
"What if I'm bold?!"
The crown prince kicked over the 'Eastern Pole Divine Furnace', and the boundless flowing fire sprinkled the earth like a meteor shower, bringing streams of light in the boundless night.
Boom!
Above Southern Zhan, the Fengshen Pavilion shone brightly, and above the Nine Heavens, the gods responded in unison.
Between the combination of heaven and earth, an indescribable giant Taiji diagram appeared together with a round of purple sun.
Rising slowly!
Buzz!
The great sun traveled through the sky, its light greatly increased.
Under the deep night, light suddenly appeared. This round of purple sun was far inferior to the six golden suns that had disappeared, but it was still a great sun star.
Its light did not seem strong, but it still illuminated the darkness!
The seas, continents, and even the realms, countless living beings, all those with a little intelligence, could not help but look towards where the purple light flowed out.
Under the light, the heaven and earth appeared even more terrifying.
Countless mountains and rivers drifted away like smoke, and the rolling oceans disappeared without a trace. A ditch that was so large that it was unimaginable appeared in everyone's eyes. No one believed that this was the North Sea.
But it was the North Sea.
How could it be just the North Sea?
More than half of the Eastern Sheng, Western He, and Northern Ju continents had collapsed, and the oceans outside them had even broken through the seabed, and endless black mud could be seen faintly.
However, where the purple light shone, Southern Zhan, or rather, the land of the Great Zhou, was still as it was before. There were always mountains collapsing and lakes evaporating, but compared to the other continents and seas, it was much, much better.
Buzz!
The purple light bloomed, and as the Taiji diagram slowly rotated, the light also spread with it.
Whoosh!
At a certain moment, the sound of water sounded again, but this sound of water was not the long river of time and space. Even, one could only hear its sound and not see its form.
Only a few Good Fortune great cultivators who were lucky enough to survive, as well as some highly accomplished Qi refiners, could see clearly.
Strands, wisps, and paths of 'Qi' slowly flowed out from the purple light, spreading towards the heaven and earth in all directions.
It flowed towards the deserts and wastelands that had been transformed by the forcible stripping of spiritual qi.
"The Sovereign Heaven, the Seventh Sun!"
Someone murmured, their hearts throbbing with bitterness.
It had been 12,000 Epochs since the Six Sages preached the Dao, but in the past ten thousand Epochs, such a scene had never appeared.
Someone leaped out of heaven and earth and transformed into the sun!
Rumble!
The moment the purple sun patrolled the sky, the billions of spiritual qi dragons that had been stripped from the heaven and earth seemed to sense something and turned their heads.
In the next instant, they were already roaring ferociously.
They erupted with a power that was enough to make even Good Fortune cultivators change their expressions, like billions of long rainbows, piercing straight towards the rising purple sun!
"Not good!"
Yang Jian's heart trembled. Before he could think too much, he had already stepped onto the long sky. With a wave of his hand, the three-pointed double-edged blade in his palm erupted with an extremely brilliant divine edge!
Buzz!
Like a red sun leaping out of the coastline.
With one slash, boundless blade light erupted, as if stars were shattering. The light of that moment even illuminated the dark heaven and earth, slashing towards the rolling, boiling spiritual qi between heaven and earth!
Yang Jian rarely took action to fight with others, but he was a natural fighter. Even though he rarely had experience fighting with others, and the opponent at this time was not an ordinary living being in the common sense.
The timing of this slash was still extremely good.
The blade light cut through the long sky, just like a ray of light from the time when heaven and earth were created before the ages, carrying an unspeakable肃杀 (solemn and desolate) air, cutting off the void heaven and earth for who knows how many thousands of miles.
He wanted to cut off the countless boiling and roaring spiritual qi mad dragons!
"Hope is渺茫 (dim), but, even if there is only a glimmer of hope…"
Under the gradually dimming Bodhi ancient tree, Gautama put his hands together and slowly stood up.
Amidst the endless Buddha light, he stepped towards the four poles and eight wastelands. One hand was raised, heading straight for the Golden Profound Emperors in the imperial court above the Nine Heavens, who had shocked expressions.
One hand was drawn down,
Pointing towards the dim and flickering, restless boundless sea of blood, and the Great Freely Asura Demon Lord sitting on the blood lotus with a cold expression:
"Why should I惜 (grudge) this body…"