Library of Heaven’s Path

Half a minute earlier…

“Something happened to the Flooding Sea!”

Seeing how the black entrance before them was shaking ceaselessly, the faces of the Cloud Dragon Monarch and the others warped in shock.

All this while, they had assumed that the Flood of Spiritual Energy had become part of the natural cycle of the Firmament, a phenomenon that would come without fail every decade. Only upon seeing this did they realize that it was something that could collapse and vanish.

Once it disappeared, the Firmament would lose its final pillar of support. The spiritual energy of the Firmament would drain without stop till everything finally dried up, leaving behind nothing but a dead, desolate world.

“Stop it!”

The present God Monarchs raised their hands and channeled their powers into the black hole right before their eyes. They were hoping to use their powers to delay the collapse of the Flooding Sea.

Kacha! Kacha!

But barely after hanging on for a while, a massive tear suddenly appeared on the seal on the dimension fissure, causing spiritual energy that had just returned to the Firmament to be swallowed by the dimension fissure once more.

The tear continued to grow larger and larger, inching its way across the entire dimension fissure at a steady pace.

“First and foremost, we should stabilize the Firmament!” the Cloud Dragon Monarch bellowed.

They knew that this was not the time for them to be competing with one another. It was the time for them to protect the Firmament and their home.

So, seven pulses of energy surged toward the dimension fissure, where the spiritual energy was escaping, to reseal it. Through sealing the dimension fissure, they were able to stabilize the state of the Firmament for the time being.

However, the condition of the Firmament had already been badly shaken, and the receding of the spiritual energy into the dimension fissure could not be undone.

The earth shuddered and the stars in the sky dimmed, looking as if they would fall at any moment. Countless buildings crumbled to the ground.

It looked as if the end had come.

“The Firmament is coming to an end…”

“I thought that this day would come, but I didn’t know it would come so quickly…”

“Don’t bother running anymore. If the Firmament collapses, there’ll be nowhere safe no matter where we escape to…”

…

In cities all over the Firmament, countless cultivators were staring at the sky with desolate looks on their faces.

Ever since spiritual energy began receding from the environment more than forty years ago, they had known deep inside that it was only a matter of time before the situation escalated into something beyond their control. They just did not expect it to come so soon.

“Let’s just wait and see. If the Nine God Monarchs can save the Firmament, we might stand a chance. Otherwise, the only fate that awaits all of us is death. There’s no need to feel so conflicted about this…” a high-tier God looking at the panicked crowd said.

Before he could finish his words, a voice suddenly echoed in the depths of their hearts, as if the will of the world had seeped into his body. “Today, I shall be a God Monarch!”

“God Monarch? Someone has managed to make a breakthrough… It’s God Monarch Zhang Xuan!”

“Isn’t Zhang Xuan that apothecary? How did he manage to become a God Monarch?”

“Indeed, that’s him! Back then, when the Heaven Subjugation Monarch became a God Monarch, I also heard a voice like that…”

…

Everyone was taken aback by such a turn of events.

In Twilight City, after hearing the voice that sounded in his mind, Mo Yun laoshi’s mouth fell open as he muttered in absolute shock, “God Monarch Zhang Xuan…”

A month ago, when he first met the other party, he had been extremely weak, only a God realm primary stage. Who would have thought that he would become a God Monarch within a single month, reaching the very zenith of the Firmament?

…

“He became a God Monarch?”

The teapot that Qi Ling-er was holding fell to the ground, but she did not even notice that.

She had known all along that the young man was no ordinary person, and she was convinced that he would grow stronger and stronger and eventually become a powerhouse of the Firmament. But she did not think that he would actually become a God Monarch, and at such a swift pace at that…

…

“As expected of the Conferred God King of the Nine Skies. Just like the Heaven Subjugation Monarch, he really managed to make a breakthrough in the Flooding Sea,” Fairy Linglong said with a conflicted look on her face.