Suddenly— Radiance flooded outward as the entire vast starry sky began to tremble.
The deafening boom alone was enough to grind countless martial cultivators to dust.
Several enormous swords of brilliant light had shot forth, slicing through the starry sky.
Though colossal, the swords moved at breathtaking speed— So fast that those monstrous creatures hadn't even reacted before the luminous blades pierced clean through their bodies.
The tremendous impact annihilated their souls on the spot, their forms dissolving into wisps of vapor that evaporated into nothing!!!
It was Tian Jian Qingyuan.
At this moment, her expression was grave.
"Why did you attack?"
Song Changsheng, standing beside Tian Jian Qingyuan, asked with a trace of confusion in his eyes.
Though they appeared to be standing within the vast expanse of the starry sky, they were in fact trapped inside an array formation. The reason they hadn't attacked outright was that they hadn't yet determined whether erasing those colossal creatures directly would be the optimal method for breaking the formation.
Sure enough, the surrounding space shifted, and the two of them found themselves back on that same path—only now the path had grown wider.
"I just sensed an aura that threatened my life. I had no choice but to act," Tian Jian Qingyuan explained.
"No matter. It's a good thing you did—it saved us some time."
Song Changsheng wasn't bothered. After all, the fact that they'd returned to the path meant the formation had been broken.
As long as the result was favorable, nothing else mattered.
"You didn't sense it?" Tian Jian Qingyuan asked.
"An aura that threatened your life?" Song Changsheng replied.
"Yes," Tian Jian Qingyuan confirmed.
"No, I didn't sense anything," Song Changsheng said.
Hearing this, Tian Jian Qingyuan fell into contemplation.
The threatening aura she had just felt had cut to the bone—a genuine certainty that she was about to die, or rather, that she should have already been dead.
Aside from those supreme figures from the ancient era, she had never felt anything like it since awakening in this age.
This was the first time she had experienced such a threat.
"Something's wrong."
Suddenly, an realization struck Tian Jian Qingyuan.
She whipped her head around to look back, and her eyes underwent a transformation. Her gaze shifted, now capable of piercing through the vast starry sky, cutting through multiple layers of barrier formations to lock onto the tomb world of the Thunder Fire Dao Ancestor—to lock onto the plaza where the Heavenly Sword Sacred Palace members stood.
At this moment, every member of the Heavenly Sword Sacred Palace wore a grave expression, their bewildered gazes all fixed upon the palm of the Palace Master.
Staring at what lay in that palm, the Heavenly Sword Sacred Palace's experts reacted as though struck by a devastating blow—many of their eyes had already filled with tears.
It was a life tablet.
Tian Jian Qingyuan's life tablet.
"Lady Qingyuan… something's happened?"
Tian Jian Can couldn't help but speak up, his voice thick with shock and disbelief.
This question echoed what everyone was already thinking—in truth, it was unnecessary. The state of a life tablet directly reflected the state of its owner.
This life tablet had been given by Tian Jian Qingyuan to the Heavenly Sword Sacred Palace Master.
The tablet had already shattered. Even for someone like Tian Jian Qingyuan, this meant her life force had dissipated.
Tian Jian Qingyuan was an ancestor-level figure—the single greatest pillar of support for their Heavenly Sword Sacred Palace.
Now that this pillar had fallen, their grief was overwhelming. They felt as though they had lost all direction for the future.
But at the same time, a bone-chilling dread crept through them.
Even someone like Tian Jian Qingyuan had perished in this place.
What kind of existence lurked within this Primordial Tomb?
After the initial shock had passed, the sounds of weeping began to rise. The crying was contagious, and before long, a great many members of the Heavenly Sword Sacred Palace were in tears.
This drew the attention of others.
The Zhao Immortal Clan, the Ye Immortal Clan, the Divine Body Heavenly Palace, and the Immortal Sea Fish Clan—all of their experts couldn't help but turn their gazes over.
Though they were concerned for Chu Feng's safety, the sight of so many from the Heavenly Sword Sacred Palace openly weeping was impossible to ignore.
Something major must have happened.