Chapter 816: Great Cataclysm

Under this strange writhing.

All living beings in the Mountain and Sea Great World were terrified, Heaven and Earth wailed, and all the powerful were suppressed by this force; even breathing became difficult, and in the end, they too began to writhe along with it, and the world began to descend into chaos.

Under such Weird power, everything else fell, except for the Mountain Spirit and Sea Spirit protected by Li Heng, and Feng Xingqi and Han Yao, who realized something was wrong and, having sacrificed half their lives to reach Li Heng's side, received his protection.

Feng Xingqi and Han Yao looked at the scene of the entire Heaven and Earth writhing, filled with shock, confusion, and fear; what on earth had happened? How did it suddenly become like this?

Such a vast Mountain and Sea Great World, with seas of immeasurable depth that drowned countless Sea Crossers, and mountains of immeasurable height that prevented countless living beings from climbing to the summit—such a vast world, even without a Supreme sitting in command, should have been absolutely Eternal.

But now?

They felt that this state was even more terrifying and Strange than Heaven and Earth returning to nothingness and everything reverting to chaos!

"It's over, it's all over..."

"What on earth is going on, why..."

The Mountain Spirit and Sea Spirit turned deathly pale, muttering to themselves. They had never experienced such a feeling of powerlessness, like tiny mortals facing a terrifying natural disaster, lonely and helpless.

They used to pride themselves on being the will of Heaven and Earth, and could even be natural disasters; the immeasurable sea could raise endless waves, evolving infinite worlds to rise and fall within them. Under the crashing of the waves, endless Sea Crossers would fall into the water, and with the rolling of the tides, they could overturn everything.

But now, the roles were reversed.

They were the ants, and this was the true natural disaster!

What pained them even more was that the Mountain and Sea Great World was gradually slipping out of their control, becoming incomparably Weird and unfamiliar, and increasingly difficult to mobilize, with only a faint connection remaining.

Yet they dared not use this thread of connection for anything, and even painfully cut it off.

The alienation appearing in the Mountain and Sea Great World now was too terrifying; it was fine to be protected by this Supreme for the moment, but if this Supreme's protection were to dissipate, they feared they would be alienated and corrupted through that very connection.

Li Heng frowned.

Was this writhing thing so irritable and direct?

He was merely using this Black Mark as a decoder, at most skimming a little off the top; as for this poor Mountain and Sea Great Tribulation, the immeasurable living beings had suffered an unprovoked disaster.

He sighed in his heart.

But he could only exert a portion of his power to protect a portion of the area. This was not because the Mountain and Sea Great World was too vast for Dao Lord Level power to cover. On the contrary, no matter how large the Mountain and Sea Great World was, a Dao Lord could cover it with a single thought.

But the current Mountain and Sea Great World was no longer normal; it had been alienated by the Calamity, beginning to writhe like a terrifying monster, just like a mother nest breeding evil, extremely Inauspicious.

This situation made it very difficult for Dao Lord power to be deployed.

If he hadn't mixed Source Power into his strength to increase its essence and might, he probably wouldn't even have been able to protect a portion of the area. And was this the true weight of this writhing thing?

But why was this writhing thing so angry?

Because of the one who blasphemed the Greatness in the words just now?

Then what was that Greatness, and who was it?

And what were all the Cradles? The Great Void he was in before? The term "cradle" generally refers to a house where an underage infant lives; one must leave the cradle to truly grow up.

Could it be that the Great Void he previously inhabited had not grown up?

But was this not a bit too outrageous?

The previous Great Void had birthed nine Dao Lords; could that be called not grown up? One must know that before the Mountain and Sea Spirits went missing, the Mountain and Sea Great World only had one Supreme sitting in command, and was the Mountain and Sea Great World outside the cradle?

It was just that the Great Void will also said the Mountain and Sea Great World was within the Great Void; perhaps the Great Void defined by each was not the same?

Li Heng pondered in his heart, filled with thousands of doubts.

Of course, besides the explanation above, the term "cradle" had another interpretation: a greenhouse that nurtures hope. A cradle, the place where hope is nurtured and born.

However, even this explanation had many doubts.

After all, the Great Void was also rampant with Calamities and monsters; for some extreme parts of the living worlds, it was no different from a doomsday disaster, always struggling bitterly.

Could this also be considered a greenhouse nurturing hope, a cradle?

While he was thinking, time in the Mountain and Sea Great World did not pause. The entire Heaven and Earth was alienated and began to writhe; no matter how strong the Dao Lord power was, it could not manage this Heaven and Earth.

As the Mountain and Sea Great World writhed each time, beating like a heart, powerful and vigorous, a black shadow of a huge writhing thing became increasingly distinct in the Void.

That writhing thing seemed to be crossing over from a Remote place!

"So angry?"

Li Heng smiled lightly, shook his head, and stopped paying attention, clearing his distracting thoughts for the moment, and once again used the Black Mark as a decoder to analyze the Causality on the Dead Silence Eye.

If it wants to cross over, let it cross over.

I, Li, will just wait for you to cross over!

However, apart from him, the others were not so calm. Especially Feng Xingqi and Han Yao; ever since they saw the black shadow of the writhing thing appear from the Void and become increasingly distinct, their expressions grew more desperate and their faces were full of fear.

Even though they were under Li Heng's protection and were currently safe and sound, and even though they knew Li Heng was a Supreme, a being of supreme nobility in the Endless Unknown.

Still, the sense of security he could bring them was incomparably weak, and it had been shattered by the fear brought by the black shadow of this writhing thing.

They vaguely recognized the origin of this writhing thing...

Vaguely recalling similar rumors!

"Writhing, Inauspicious, Terror, black shadow..."

Feng Xingqi's face was deathly pale, muttering these keywords, his courage seemingly about to be shattered.

"The Great Terror that even causes Supremes to fall..."

Han Yao felt her throat go dry, whispering.

They were both elites of super families and ancient sects, so they naturally knew many secrets.

For example, in the endless years ago, the endless Known Land was not scattered in various places, but connected as one, a boundless Known Land, resisting the Unknown Ocean.

At that time, the civilization on the Known Land was incomparably prosperous, with heaven-defying geniuses and powerful figures emerging in succession, and even the Supreme was not an unattainable existence.

However, until a Great Cataclysm.

The Known Land shattered, and the Unknown regained the upper hand, dividing and surrounding pieces of the Known Land, turning them into Known Islands, or even isolated islands, floating in the Unknown Ocean.

In that Great Cataclysm, civilization declined, and the powerful bled.

The Supreme could no longer be found!

As for the specifics of that Disaster, they are no longer verifiable; only a few scattered keywords and phrases remain. The one that appears most often is... writhing!

"Writhing, writhing, everything has begun to writhe. Oh, this is the Absolute existence, the origin's Reason, the objective entity, the ultimate beauty of all things! How wonderful..."