"Many things seem to have changed."
"Yet, it's as if nothing has ever changed."
"Same old wine in a new bottle, still dreaming, unwilling to wake?"
As Fang Ming uttered these words,
Deep within the Heavenly Palace, three streams of five-colored light flowed, and an aura of circulating five energies surged towards the heavens.
Fang Ming peered intently and saw three celestial maidens.
The youngest of them had long hair that cascaded down, swaying gently in the breeze.
Her eyes held a clear gaze, and she appeared to be around fourteen or fifteen years old.
Bi Xiao Celestial Maiden.
The middle-aged celestial maiden, around seventeen or eighteen, her eyes seemed to hold divine radiance, and her skin was as translucent as white jade.
Qiong Xiao Celestial Maiden.
The most mature in temperament and appearance, and also the most breathtakingly beautiful celestial maiden.
The leader of the Three Xiao – Yun Xiao Celestial Maiden!
The arrivals were none other than the Three Xiao!
And three Hunyuan Great Enlightenment Golden Immortals!
"Three Xiao Celestial Maidens?"
Fang Ming looked down slightly.
Bi Xiao Celestial Maiden, seemingly the youngest, said coldly, "Fang Ming? As a core disciple of my sect, you have openly destroyed the world, killing countless Great Enlightenment Immortals from the mortal realm and the Heavenly Palace. What crime do you deserve?"
Qiong Xiao Celestial Maiden said, "I have observed the Chaos Epoch and know that you once destroyed the Yu Yu Heaven with a single palm in the lower realm's chaos, killing the three of us."
"However, the Three Xiao you killed were merely confined to a single Chaos Epoch, not us, the Hunyuan Great Enlightenment Golden Immortals."
"To equate the two is to court your own destruction."
Yun Xiao also looked down at Fang Ming and said, "We, the three sisters, Hunyuan Great Enlightenment Golden Immortals, can, with our combined strength, create a new world and resurrect all cultivators in the Heavenly Palace and the mortal realm, making this world as it was before."
"However, this would greatly deplete our magical power and cannot be used lightly."
"You will surely pay the price for your actions, Fang Ming."
"First, we will capture you, and then my three sisters will go to see our husband."
Among the Three Xiao Celestial Maidens, Qiong Xiao's body flowed with five-colored light. With a thought, she wielded the power of the Five Elements origin.
The perfection of the Five Elements, their mutual generation and restraint, symbolized the perfection of the Great Enlightenment Immortal Dao, the completeness of the origin power!
At this moment, Qiong Xiao took a deep breath and unleashed the Golden Flood Dragon Scissors, a Dao artifact nurtured by the Five Elements origin world for five thousand Chaos Epochs.
Already an extremely superior Dao artifact, the Golden Flood Dragon Scissors, now empowered by the Five Elements origin force, instantly transformed into two flood dragons.
These two flood dragons, shimmering with five-colored light, each minuscule strand of light capable of annihilating hundreds of billions, even trillions, of great universes.
What was the Great Dao, what was time, what was void, all were easily shredded before these two flood dragons.
The concept of time vanished.
The Dao also vanished.
The vast, boundless expanse seemed to be only one centimeter long, yet it could also fill infinite time and space.
The concept of space became distorted.
Then it began to collapse.
No concept seemed capable of bearing the existence of the Golden Flood Dragon Scissors.
Unable to bear the might of a Hunyuan Great Enlightenment Golden Immortal's strike!
This attack had even transcended the "metaphysical"!
And Fang Ming was now facing the full might of the Golden Flood Dragon Scissors!
"A Dao artifact... it seems to be an extremely superior Dao artifact!"
Fang Ming murmured to himself, "A mere Innate Spiritual Treasure, nurtured by the origin world, elevated to this state?"
"Coupled with the momentum of the Five Elements' circulation, if I hadn't briefly established the Immortal Emperor position, it would be difficult for me to defeat her solely with my physique and primordial spirit."
Fang Ming's Quasi-Immortal Emperor level immortal primordial spirit surged with boundless divine sense power.
"Demon Movement! Life and Death Reverse Tribulation!"
From infinitely high above, the source of time and space vibrated violently.
In the place where all concepts had vanished, a terrifying demonic energy emerged.
This was Fang Ming, using his Quasi-Immortal Emperor level primordial spirit, unleashing the full power of his boundless divine sense, and with incomplete Emperor Dao laws, executing an ultimate Emperor technique!
Fang Ming, with his demonic purple hair and clad in a pure black, form-fitting battle armor, stood silently at the source of time and space. Twelve hundred ninety-six trillion great universes filled with demonic energy automatically circled his Emperor body, embodying the ultimate profound mystery of the demonic path.
Fang Ming's divine sense power transformed into an ultimate Emperor sword, filled with all darkness and demonic concepts. It was an Emperor sword that demonic cultivators would revere as the ultimate true path upon seeing even a single rune on its hilt.
This Emperor sword transcended all past, present, and future, all eons of time and space. Fang Ming, with his Quasi-Immortal Emperor body and terrifyingly extreme physical strength, swung the Emperor sword towards Qiong Xiao's location.
The physical strength and divine sense power of a Quasi-Immortal Emperor are unimaginable.
Countless great universes, before the sword light even arrived, turned to dust, their concepts of time and space utterly annihilated.
This was an attack nearing the multiversal level.
Given the essence of this realm, before a Quasi-Immortal Emperor and a Hunyuan Great Enlightenment Golden Immortal, time and space held no meaning.
Therefore, the moment Fang Ming drew his sword was the moment the Emperor sword struck.
The moment Qiong Xiao unleashed the Golden Flood Dragon Scissors was the moment the Golden Flood Dragon Scissors struck.
The Golden Flood Dragon Scissors and the Emperor sword formed by Fang Ming's divine sense power collided almost instantaneously.
As the two briefly paused, a violent fluctuation erupted.
Had Fang Ming not preemptively destroyed the world, this fluctuation, upon its outbreak, would have been equivalent to world destruction, with only a handful of survivors.
And after this clash.
Fang Ming's gaze remained unchanged, his footing steady.
Qiong Xiao, however, was forced back countless distances, blood trickling from her lips.
One of her "momentum" had been broken!
The momentum of the Five Elements' circulation had been shattered!
"How is this possible? You could actually break the Five Elements' circulation momentum of a Hunyuan Great Enlightenment Golden Immortal?"
Qiong Xiao's face revealed surprise.
The momentum of the Five Elements' circulation...
This was a "momentum" that only a Hunyuan Great Enlightenment Golden Immortal, who had perfected the Great Enlightenment Immortal Dao and completely mastered the Five Elements origin power, could possess!
With this circulation of Five Elements, no matter how numerous or powerful the Great Enlightenment Immortals were, they could never break through this momentum's defense.
It was precisely because of this that Hunyuan Great Enlightenment Golden Immortals were invincible against cultivators of lower realms.
Even the so-called Immortal Slaying Sword Formation, laid out with twenty-eight Dao artifacts, sixty semi-Dao artifacts, and five hundred Chaos Supreme Treasures, could only contend with a Hunyuan Great Enlightenment Golden Immortal for a short period, but could never wound one.
Unable to break the Five Elements' circulation momentum surrounding the body of a Hunyuan Great Enlightenment Golden Immortal meant that they could never be harmed.
In this realm, only another "momentum of Five Elements' circulation" could break the "momentum of Five Elements' circulation."
Only a Hunyuan Great Enlightenment Golden Immortal could inflict damage upon another Hunyuan Great Enlightenment Golden Immortal.
This was an eternal, unchanging truth...
Yet, Fang Ming had broken her Five Elements' circulation momentum, not with another such momentum, but with his physique and divine sense power. Not only that, but he had repelled her with a single blow while remaining unharmed.
This...
"What kind of power is this? How can it be so formidable?"
Qiong Xiao was inwardly astonished.