Chapter 615: Establishing the Sole Truth of Ancient Tai Xuan Tian!

Gu’s expression darkened abruptly.

Indeed, it was because when Tian had previously taken advantage of the opening to urge Him…

Though He had anticipated it, hearing it spoken by the Sword Ancestor still sent a shock through Him.

A fleeting afterimage…

Merely perceiving that instant’s afterimage had allowed him to ignore temporal interference and anchor the location of Gu Tai Xuan Tian!

It was His own domain, His own sovereign authority!

He wished to rise from His throne and expel the Sword Ancestor from Gu Tai Xuan Tian.

Yet the moment the thought formed…

Crack!

A fissure appeared on the seven-colored orbs flanking the armrests, and thin streams of fluid-like seven-hued auspicious radiance seeped out.

Boom!

Boom!!

The entire Gu Tai Xuan Tian trembled violently, shaking incessantly.

The jagged, pitch-black fissure spanning the heavens began expanding once more, stretching toward the ends of heaven and earth, as if intent on splitting Gu Tai Xuan Tian in two!

A blazing crimson light ignited behind the sky, and a red moon encompassing all sword arts from ancient to modern times slowly rose, hanging behind Xu Xing.

Amidst ringing sword tones, scarlet moonlight spilled forth, dimming the radiance of the sun.

All of this occurred within a fraction of an instant, and the entire Gu Tai Xuan Tian was dyed the color of the red moon.

Wherever the moonlight fell, from the edges of heaven and earth, Gu Tai Xuan Tian was gradually becoming illusory.

This special realm, forged from the remnants of past authority, was losing its foundational stability under the red moon’s erosion.

Inside the Hall of Ages.

Gu, struggling to maintain the foundation of Gu Tai Xuan Tian’s existence, stared fixedly at Xu Xing, his heart filled with shock and fury.

In His perception, the temporal correction and repulsion force He had summoned surged toward Xu Xing like a tidal wave, seeking to erase this being who did not belong to the past and return him to the correct timeline.

Yet this repulsion force, potent enough to shake Dao-attained beings and even resist Immortal Ancestors, could not even draw near before being split in two!

No!

He cannot be allowed to continue.

If this continues, the very foundation of Gu Tai Xuan Tian’s existence will be erased.

“The old era sheds its shell and is reborn!”

A low chant spread like a tangible ripple, and Gu Tai Xuan Tian itself immediately responded.

First, the grand hall at the heart of heaven and earth, formed from infinite ages and where Gu resided.

Then came mountains, rivers, trees, lakes, seas—even the sun, dimmed by the sword moon’s dominance—began to manifest layered, overlapping shadows.

The technique “Old Era Shedding Shell” rendered the entire Gu Tai Xuan Tian hazy and illusory!

From the heavens above to the earth below, from all living beings within Gu Tai Xuan Tian to the tiniest particles floating in the air—all were affected!

Only Xu Xing, standing with sword in hand and the red moon hovering behind him, remained utterly untouched.

“You think too highly of yourself.”

A calm voice echoed outward.

Hum~!

The sword moon behind Xu Xing suddenly blazed with brilliant light!

Instantly, countless tiny sword beams darted through the hazy, overlapping shadows of Gu Tai Xuan Tian, stitching them together as if mending fabric, forcibly restoring Gu Tai Xuan Tian to its original state.

“What exactly are you trying to do?!!”

Gu was both shocked and furious, but mostly bewildered.

He had just intended to use the “Old Era Shedding Shell” technique to sever the portion of Gu Tai Xuan Tian existing after the moment the Sword Ancestor arrived, thereby altering the “past” of the Sword Ancestor’s anchoring of Gu Tai Xuan Tian.

At the very least, he could have sliced the temporal-spatial fabric of Gu Tai Xuan Tian and seized control of the version existing before the Sword Ancestor’s arrival, avoiding the anchoring entirely.

Naturally, it had failed…

The Sword Ancestor’s existence was eternally singular; his anchoring of Gu Tai Xuan Tian’s “past” was not distant enough for Him to shake…

Even the process of slicing Gu Tai Xuan Tian’s spacetime had been forcibly interrupted, forcing Gu Tai Xuan Tian back to its original state.

But!

If he could achieve this, then the Sword Ancestor possessed the power to sever the very foundation of Gu Tai Xuan Tian’s existence.

Yet he had not done so…

Xu Xing did not answer Gu’s question; instead, he looked up at the jagged fissure stretching across heaven and earth.

Amidst the surging boundless crimson light, a hint of violet pierced through the temporal correction repulsion force, having broken through his seals and was about to reach Gu Tai Xuan Tian.

Xuan has arrived!

More precisely, the moment Xuan sensed something amiss, He had immediately rushed toward Gu Tai Xuan Tian.

Only to be blocked by the seals Xu Xing had laid.

“Pity.”

Xu Xing withdrew his gaze.

The realm he currently occupied was still part of the past; his seals could not hold back Xuan for long.

“But it’s enough.”

He had achieved his purpose in coming to Gu Tai Xuan Tian—and gained an unexpected bonus…

Looking at the seven-hued radiance writhing in his palm, bound tightly within a cage of crimson blade-light, Xu Xing’s face broke into a faint smile.

The era of the Primordial Ancients and the dawn of the Ultimate Ancients—those were domains they had never understood.

From it, perhaps he could learn some truths about the origins of Gu and Xuan, these two primordial Dao-attained beings…

Thinking of this, Xu Xing prepared to turn and leave.

Suddenly, he sensed something and looked toward a certain point in Gu Tai Xuan Tian.

Beneath the torrent of crimson light, a sudden temporal current had twisted and swallowed hundreds of Cang Clan members.

“…,” he paused briefly, “They are still the ‘Favored Clan of Heaven’…”

With a soft sigh, Xu Xing’s figure dissolved like a waterborne phantom moon.

The scarlet moonlight receded like a tide, and the red moon encompassing all sword arts from ancient to modern vanished.

Instantly, the dimmed sun regained its radiance, and the blazing crimson light behind the heavens was replaced by boundless surging violet qi.

Inside the Hall of Ages.

Gu sat upon His throne, staring blankly through the gap carved by the Sword Ancestor’s blade, toward the spot where Xu Xing had appeared and vanished.

With the red moon’s disappearance, the foundation of Gu Tai Xuan Tian’s existence, which had been on the verge of collapse, gradually regained stability.

Had it not been for the gap in the Hall of Ages and the jagged fissure still spanning heaven and earth, He might have believed nothing had happened at all.

As Gu remained lost in thought, thin threads of violet qi flowed down from the fissure in the heavens, converging at the very spot where Xu Xing had appeared and vanished, forming a lofty, inscrutable presence that seemed to embody all cosmic mysteries.

Xuan!

His gaze swept across the entirety of Gu Tai Xuan Tian; his blurred face revealed no expression.

Xuan raised a hand, two fingers pointing toward the end of the heavenly fissure, then drew a line toward the opposite end.

Without sound or motion, the once-jagged fissure in the heavens swiftly sealed shut.

By the time Xuan lowered His hand, the sky, once torn like tattered cloth, had returned to its original state.

The azure heavens were clean, not a single cloud in sight.

Only an extremely faint red line, invisible unless one focused intently, remained hidden within the heavens, perfectly fused with the entire realm.

A flicker of solemnity passed through Xuan’s eyes.

“This is troublesome.”

After a long while, He withdrew His gaze and drifted toward the Hall of Ages at the heart of heaven and earth.

Even though He had done everything possible to conceal it, the Sword Ancestor had still sensed the location of “Heaven.”

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Present-day Tai Xuan Realm.

Starfront battlefield.