"Hmm... as long as the Saint of this time and space doesn’t intervene."

Chen Kuang touched his chin and looked at the "Feather" symbol in his palm.

Without this "Feather" symbol, Chen Kuang would be unable to resonate with the "Time" Dao and thus unable to access this timeline from 2,300 years ago.

So, is Xi Mengquan painstakingly trying to recreate history, or does he hope Chen Kuang will find something here? Or understand something?

"Anyway, let’s first try to grasp this strand of ’Dao Rhyme’..."

Chen Kuang raised his hand, casually pointing to the starry sky, and wielded the "Void-Slaying Sword."

--Not that he had any special thoughts, just that aiming at the ground might damage the flowers and grass.

He made a horizontal slash.

A certain mysterious intention abruptly appeared at his fingertip, but vanished the next moment.

Above the starry sky, a twisted crack spread out but ceased to expand before revealing its full form.

Chen Kuang seemed thoughtful, repeating the action once more.

Again and again...

Below, Xi Mengquan curiously walked out from the house, bewildered as he watched Chen Kuang pointing at the sky like a child.

He had completely no understanding of what Chen Kuang was doing; it already exceeded his current comprehension of a "cultivator."

Until suddenly, Chen Kuang’s expression became exceptionally serious.

The finger he used to slice the sky became sluggish, and the force incredibly heavy, as though a weight of ten thousand pounds was hindering him.

Fortunately, after the Sea Breaking Realm, Spiritual Qi was no longer a limitation.

The Spiritual Qi within Chen Kuang’s body surged wildly, and the surrounding Spiritual Qi gathered towards him, assisting him!

Xi Mengquan watched in shock as the surrounding Spiritual Qi was completely drained, feeling almost suffocated.

Standing in the center of the Spiritual Qi storm, Chen Kuang was forced upright.

Cold sweat covered his forehead, fingers trembling continually, veins bulged on his temples and arms, even some blood oozed from his skin, with his teeth chattering.

The situation was amiss... he seemed to have inadvertently stumbled upon something extraordinary.

But clearly, he was facing an empty sky...

"No, there’s something there."

Chen Kuang stared wide-eyed at the starry sky.

"This sky itself exists!"

So this time, his "Void-Slaying Sword"... was it slicing open this sky?!

Chen Kuang couldn’t calm down, gazing at the increasingly large rift in the sky, the surrounding Spiritual Qi fully concentrated on him. If he didn’t follow through with this slice, he might severely injure himself.

At this moment, with no enemies nearby, his passive abilities were inactive, relying solely on his own cultivation...

Forget it, slice then!

Chen Kuang held his breath, focused intently, clenched his teeth, exerted his fingers with all his might, and finally reached the end!

In an instant, an imperceptible fissure cracked open in the sky above.

This fissure seemed small and thin, but above the sky, it stretched for thousands of miles, through which one could see... a piece of transparency?

Within that transparent color, there seemed to be a hint of chaotic hue, with a peculiar arc.

Chen Kuang’s pupils shrank, as if struck by lightning.

And below, standing Xi Mengquan, appeared puzzled.

At this moment, he did not yet know that this scene would be deeply etched into his memory for the next two thousand years.

...

Daqi Dynasty, Observatory.

This day would become the most terrifying day recorded by the Observatory.

Though in later generations, no record of this day would be passed down, and even this piece of history would be erased.

But at this moment, chaos and upheaval spread from the Observatory to the Imperial Palace.

Two Star Officials observing celestial phenomena at the Observatory were killed, and one went insane, leading to Jian Zheng’s intervention to completely quell the chaos.

Inside the study in the Imperial Palace.

Jian Zheng urgently sought an audience with the Emperor of Daqi, truthfully reporting today’s celestial phenomena.

The Emperor of Daqi remained silent for a long time, then asked, "Is it true?"

Jian Zheng nodded solemnly.

The Emperor of Daqi sighed deeply, his originally aged visage growing even more despondent: "How could it be like this... How could it be like this! No wonder that Human Emperor chose to initiate the Hunt for Heaven, it was so! We were all wrong!"