“Rumble…”

Beneath the entire Desolate Domain, it seemed as if some massive, slumbering monster was about to awaken.

Even the Pangu dreamscape floating above began to shake and distort along with it, like a lake surface shattered by someone’s impact.

In the dreamscape, Xie Buchen and Yue Ying had yet to determine a victor.

For Yue Ying, this was truly a great humiliation.

Though he had lost sixty to seventy percent of his strength in the first Yin-Yang Great War a thousand years ago, he shouldn’t be unable to even handle a single Xie Buchen!

However, the current reality was that he not only couldn’t handle his opponent, but was even completely restrained by him.

Every cultivator has their own limits of ability and their own limits of change. When the time of combat reaches a certain length, all abilities will be exposed before the opponent, and all changes will eventually be exhausted.

This is the most dangerous time.

Because you never know if your opponent has secretly held back a move.

Xie Buchen was precisely the kind of powerful opponent who could bring such oppressive pressure.

His cultivation might not necessarily be that high, but the ruler he wielded was indescribably strange. It clearly looked like it actually existed, yet when he truly engaged with Xie Buchen, he felt this object was sometimes real and sometimes illusory, changing in myriad ways, elusive and unpredictable.

Even he couldn’t see through the depths of this ruler!

Xie Buchen was merely a cultivator who had ascended to the Upper Void for several decades, and those three drops of incense were still in his own hands – how could he possibly possess such formidable strength, and where did he find such a terrifying ruler?

The continuous situations occurring in the Desolate Domain below tugged at Yue Ying’s thoughts, making him increasingly agitated about being currently held up by a mere Xie Buchen.

This agitation finally reached its peak when that strand of purple light flew out from Jian Chou’s palm!

What the hell was this damned woman trying to do?!

He was nearly furious with rage.

He only regretted that when he was in the Polar Domain years ago, he hadn’t anticipated everything happening now – otherwise he would have struck her dead with a single palm when she was still weak!

“Crack!”

Agitation and fury led to distraction. While he was worrying about the situation in the Desolate Domain below, that ink-black narrow ruler had already struck like a sword!

“Boom!”

The bright moon that Yue Ying had just manifested was actually shattered to pieces!

The shooting radiance scattered like shattered white jade, brushing past Xie Buchen’s cold, murderous cheek, leaving a sharp bloody mark!

Where was there any trace of the indifferent noble young master from the past?

The current Xie Buchen, bearing killing intent like frost across his face, was like a cornered beast driven to a desperate final struggle, and also like a butcher whose eyes had turned red with killing!

Around the entire Desolate Domain, the world had already fallen into complete darkness.

Whether in the Upper Void Immortal Realm or in the Three Thousand Lower Realms, there was no longer a trace of light between heaven and earth!

In the Primordial Realm, on the lands of the Nineteen Provinces, mortals knelt on the ground in terror, crying and wailing, while cultivators also had no idea what was happening, only looking fearfully toward the outer sky; even the Upper Void’s Three Heavens were filled with mournful howls!

It was simply a catastrophe!

The moment the Desolate Domain began to shake, countless rocks and even fragments of shattered earth fell from this massive expanse, passing through the chaotic star streams, crossing the cold void, and smashing into those countless stars!

Many people couldn’t react in time and were already buried along with the stars.

Great fires burned in the darkness, yet not half an inch of firelight could be seen – only the screams of people burning in the flames, which soon fell silent…

But all of this seemed to be merely a beginning for the Desolate Domain.

Just like a giant about to awaken, moving his body and shaking off the dust covering him, the Desolate Domain continued to tremble.

That strand of purple light had already flown close in the blink of an eye.

“Hum!”

When it flew to within just one zhang of Great Lord Pangu’s brow, heaven and earth suddenly rang with a humming sound, and a huge deep purple disc appeared at His brow.

Then it rapidly rotated, forming a whirlpool.

Enormous pulling force spread from the center to the surroundings, quickly sucking that strand of purple light into it.

The moment the divine key entered, the whirlpool also suddenly collapsed inward!

Just like collapsing into the depths of one’s heart!

At this moment, the entire vast and boundless universe seemed to hear this magnificent sound! The stars silent in darkness and cold all trembled in unison!

One sound after another, each louder than the last!

Mountains called out, seas roared!

Striking people’s eardrums and striking their souls!

However, when they wanted to raise their hands to cover their ears and protect their heads, they discovered with shock and terror: where was there any sound between heaven and earth?

Everything was just their illusion.

The whirlpool was silent, the universe was also silent. All they could hear was their own gradually quickening breathing!

The strand of white smoke connecting the Desolate Domain and the dreamscape trembled violently the moment the divine key completely entered Pangu’s brow.

This realm of dreams above everyone’s heads also began to change rapidly.

After merely three breaths, like a sand city, it began slow destruction!

Awakening!

The sleeping Pangu was awakening!

That divine key was pulling Him from his dreams!

When the dreamscape was more than half destroyed, this Desolate Domain drifting in the universe, this Pangu who had slept for nearly two epochs, finally opened his eyes!

“Crack crack crack!”

“Crash crash crash!”

“Rumble rumble rumble!”

In His two eye sockets that had originally sunken into valleys, countless trees that had grown for tens of thousands of years but died at some unknown time toppled and broke, vast lakes raised waves like high walls surging into the void, and the hills and earth stones piled on His eyelids all flipped over!

Everyone, including the deities, retreated far away at this moment, terrified by the mighty power of Pangu opening his eyes.

But the next moment, what appeared before everyone was not a pair of eyes!

But two terrifyingly large, pitch-black eye sockets!

Just like the empty eye sockets on a white bone skull’s face!

Not at all the magnificent grandeur everyone had imagined, but instead revealing a kind of suppressive, fearsome evil!

“No, something’s wrong!”

“Wrong—”

“It’s not Great Lord Pangu who’s awakening!!!”

“The dreamscape is still there!”

Someone had already reacted at the fastest speed, instantly remembering the dreamscape above their heads that was in the process of collapsing but hadn’t completely collapsed yet. They immediately shouted in shock and fury, while directing their anger-filled gaze toward Jian Chou!

But how could the current Jian Chou possibly notice?

When she gently released her five fingers and let that strand of purple light fly out from her palm, her entire mind and spirit had already been completely focused on what was before her!

When she saw these two hollow, pitch-black eyes, what appeared in her pupils was not terror, but rather a trace of a smile.

These two massive eyes initially only covered Pangu’s eye sockets on both sides, but after just a moment, they rapidly spread outward, like seeping thick ink, and like evil darkness.

That feeling was bone-chilling.

No different from reaching out your hand in darkness only to touch countless sticky, writhing insects!

Soon they had already made contact with each other, contracting from both ends toward the middle, gathering together. In the blink of an eye, they had swallowed the previously deep purple whirlpool, transforming into one giant eye that opened on Pangu’s skull!

Like opening the floodgates!

In an instant, everyone heard mighty roars whistling past their ears!

The entire ancient era that had never included human participation, that had already passed, came rushing toward them in this powerful and strange manner!

It was enormously huge, pitch-black without light, fiercely evil and stern!

Just as the Upper Void cultivators had said earlier, where was this Pangu? This was clearly the deities’ conspiracy, a peerless evil demon!

The countless deities around, upon seeing this scene, had already relaxed their previously tense nerves and fallen into wild joy.

Shao Ji couldn’t help but burst into laughter!

Laughing at the Upper Void’s weakness, laughing at Jian Chou’s stupidity, laughing at their overestimation of their abilities, and how they had made wedding clothes for others!

“Hahaha, Heaven blesses the Ancestral God!”

“Jian Chou, oh Jian Chou, no matter how strong or ruthless you are, how could you anticipate that within His Pangu’s skull, there is not only His sleeping divine soul, but also imprisoned the Ancestral God forged from the obsessions of countless innocent fallen kinsmen of our deity race?!”

“We sought the divine key precisely for this moment!”

Pangu’s divine soul was sleeping, but the Ancestral God of the deity race was not sleeping!

The deities that had fallen over three epochs all possessed a common obsession, which was—

Kill Pangu!

All of them had gathered in Pangu’s skull from the moment of their formation, only they were trapped by the restrictions of Pangu’s slumber, unable to get out or harm Pangu’s divine soul.

But at the moment Jian Chou opened the ancestral aperture, everything quietly changed!

As His laughter spread, this godless giant eye that appeared on Pangu’s forehead had already begun devouring toward Pangu’s entire skull!

Shao Ji’s expression became extremely pleased.

He recalled that battle on the sacred mountain in the snow region years ago, and several traces of malice and cunning appeared on his evil face. He actually gave Jian Chou a fierce smile: “Your death has come!”

“Death?”

Jian Chou raised an eyebrow, repeated the word, only withdrawing her gaze and directing it toward the presumptuous Shao Ji, staring at him.

Then, right in front of him, under his gaze—

She extended her finger toward the corner of her own eye!

“You mean this?”

Her slender index finger pressed against the narrow corner of her eye, yet golden cages seemed to flash through her pupils. A thin black line wandered out from the depths, grasped tightly by Jian Chou’s two fingers, and pulled out!

It was completely a living thing!

Like a writhing black worm!

“How, how could you possibly—”

This scene might only seem somewhat shocking to others, but falling in Shao Ji’s eyes, it raised tremendous waves!

He couldn’t react at all!

Jian Chou actually knew of this thing’s existence, and even now used such a simple and brutal method to directly pull it out!

“Mere evil spirits, trivial tricks, and you hope to disturb my mind and take my life?” Jian Chou coldly sneered, while her gaze had already fallen back on that giant eye, killing intent surging like a mad tide. “To be honest, I’ve been waiting for this day for a long time!”

Having finished speaking, she actually gently released her fingers.

That living black line, like a fish swimming upstream, headed straight for the giant eye, rushing toward it!