Qiu Siruo, her face slightly pale and even her fair skin beginning to show glazed-colored cracks, stared coldly at True Person Caiyun, Kong Yang, whose figure had just wavered slightly.

The situation was more serious than she had anticipated.

The hot-tempered Pure Dust True Person chose to go out and meet the enemy the moment Kong Yang personally arrived at Heavenly Summit Mountain and deployed the Abyssal Tower.

She did not believe she would lose.

This was under the premise that Kong Yang would not defy the laws of heaven and earth and would not employ Dao Rhyme.

However, Qiu Siruo seemed to have thought everything was too optimistic.

No one had ever guaranteed that, under the premise that Qiu Siruo and Gu Jing were willing to pay any price and use Dao Rhyme to collect the Heavenly Summit Mirror fragments, the other Ascenders would not resist desperately.

It was only a matter of whether they truly had the resolve.

Clearly, Kong Yang possessed this resolve.

But the current Qiu Siruo still did not understand where Kong Yang's resolve came from.

Watching the two Ascenders battling in the sky, causing heaven and earth to turn upside down and the stars to shift in an instant, displaying such vast and mighty power, Chen Yan, sitting on the ground looking up, was filled with shock.

Especially at the moment when Qiu Siruo casually swung her sword and severed a sea of clouds ten thousand zhang high.

Back during the Outer Court Cataclysm of Kongshan Sect, the power of the Demon-Slaying Grand Array unleashed by Li Haoran at the peak of the Dao Union Realm by burning his own limited remaining lifespan could barely compare to the might of a single glazed sword energy released by Qiu Siruo.

This was not just a gap between spiritual energy and Immortal Qi.

But then, a scene that left Chen Yan even more dumbfounded appeared.

The moment a black rift tore open in the sky before Qiu Siruo, all the hair on Chen Yan's body stood on end.

He knew what that black rift, over a zhang long, represented.

It was exactly the same sight he witnessed when that seven-colored flowing gold Goddess Statue descended into the world.

Immediately after, Chen Yan saw a black rift over a zhang long tear open in front of Kong Yang as well.

What exactly was this...

...

The battle between Kong Yang and Qiu Siruo, these two Ascenders, continued.

Streak after streak of pure white or glazed-colored Dao Rhyme flew back and forth between True Person Caiyun and Pure Dust True Person.

They had completely regarded this patch of heaven and earth, even the entire Chenping Continent, as their battlefield.

However, no matter how chaotic it became, the Heavenly Summit Mountain beneath their feet remained completely unaffected.

Because Chen Yan could not be affected.

Whether resetting history by over sixty thousand years or resetting history by over seven thousand years, a causality vessel was essential.

One after another, black rifts began to appear in the azure sky, healing at an extremely slow pace.

The laws of heaven and earth above Heavenly Summit Mountain were being madly worn away. Kong Yang and Qiu Siruo completely disregarded how much damage this life-and-death struggle would inflict upon the laws and order of heaven and earth of Chenping Continent.

Because they had both completely abandoned this current era.

One sought to reset history to over sixty thousand years ago, while the other wanted to reset history to over seven thousand years ago.

Then, an even more shocking scene appeared—

The sky shattered.

Colorless, massive fissures began to appear in the sky, stretching for ten thousand li.

Although there were limitations imposed by the laws of heaven and earth, if Ascenders disregarded all consequences, they could exert their own immense power to their heart's content.

And the fissures now appearing in the sky were the result of the collapse of the laws of heaven and earth.

The Heavenly Dao would repair these collapsed laws of heaven and earth at an extremely slow pace.

But as mentioned above, this speed was extremely slow.

The most direct and terrifying consequence brought about by the collapse of the laws of heaven and earth was the violent disturbance and mutation of the world's spiritual energy.

Spiritual energy madly surged into the meridians of all cultivators within a radius of several hundred thousand li around Heavenly Summit Mountain. Soon, the meridians of these cultivators were completely destroyed by the violent heaven and earth spiritual energy, and then their bodies exploded and they died.

"Xiao Bo'an," who had originally been standing beside Chen Yan, saw his entire body inflate like a balloon, then exploded with a "bang."

Chen Yan was not affected by the violent disturbance of the world's spiritual energy because his meridians and Martial Spring were still anchored in a past point in time, thus remaining unaffected.

Qiu Siruo's current state appeared extremely wretched.

The fair skin of this young girl was covered with densely packed glazed-colored cracks, as if they could shatter at any moment.

And Kong Yang, hundreds of zhang away from her, even though possessing the Purple Mansion Art, was also finding it somewhat difficult to withstand the Karmic Backlash brought about by the collapse of the laws of heaven and earth.

Immediately after, the violent heaven and earth spiritual energy in the world gathered towards Qiu Siruo's direction and began repairing the glazed-colored cracks on her body.

Possessed by the tenth-generation Steward of Heavenly Summit Mountain, Qiu Siruo, a unique and special constitution.

Back then, the ninth-generation Steward of Heavenly Summit Mountain, True Person Aicheng, held in high regard Qiu Siruo, who possessed a special constitution and was merely a small Martial Spring Realm cultivator at the time.

He believed her Glazed Pure Body would surely achieve great things on the path of cultivation.

Thus, True Person Aicheng personally composed a Glazed Art for her based on the characteristics of Qiu Siruo's constitution. This Glazed Art played a significant role for Qiu Siruo until before she reached the Dao Union Realm.

Later, when Qiu Siruo was at the peak of the Dao Union Realm, she combined this Glazed Art with her own insights gained from nearly a thousand years of cultivation to create this Pure Dust Glazed Art.

It was also the foundational cultivation method of Pure Dust True Person.

The greatest characteristic of the Glazed Pure Body was its ability to absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth at an extremely exaggerated speed and efficiency, rapidly increasing one's own cultivation.

Simultaneously, Qiu Siruo could also absorb the world's spiritual energy to stabilize her own damaged Dao Basis to a certain extent.

Of course, although the damage to the Dao Basis was irreversible.

The stabilization Qiu Siruo performed on her own Dao Basis was sufficient to reverse her current disadvantage.

Kong Yang was also well aware of this.

The Abyssal Tower, hovering in mid-air, began to rotate. A low chant began to emanate from within this bronze tower.

It was time for a desperate, final struggle—

At this very moment, a wisp of light green rainbow suddenly rose from Heavenly Summit Mountain. The azure sky was torn open once more by a dark rift, and then from within this light green rainbow flew a youthful figure clad in moon-white daoist robes. He passed through that dark rift and slapped a Dao Rhyme onto the Abyssal Tower.

The Abyssal Tower trembled violently, then its rotation gradually came to a halt, and the chanting from within the tower also vanished without a trace.

Realman Lingxuan, Gu Jing.

The price Gu Jing paid in the battle that annihilated Mirage Palace was not small.

He was currently not at his peak state, and would never return to his peak state.

But if one were to compare the depth of cultivation and the power that could be unleashed in a short period of time, Realman Lingxuan still surpassed Pure Dust True Person, who was more adept at prolonged combat.