“Damn, it turns out I’m just a frog in a well. In front of a true expert, I’m still a speck of dust that’s easily swept away,” Xiao Tian thought to himself. But even so he still tried not to faint. His mind remained clear, even though his body was on the verge of collapse. He did not force himself to challenge, he only refused to fall before he was truly unable. The fifty people behind him were a burden he had taken on himself, and he did not want them to be killed just because he could not hold on for one more breath. That pressure continued to increase, not in power, but in duration, as if testing how long his body could hold on without gaps. When Xiao Tian was almost at his limit. There was a fleeting moment when his eyelids felt heavy, when his body almost gave in to the pressure. In that moment, his mind went blank for a moment, as if there was a part of him waiting for something he did not call. BUZZ!!! That response appeared without an order from his mouth, without hand

Xiao Tian cupped his hands with his body slightly bent. “Senior, I will speak honestly. This world appeared in the Cosmic Ocean Universe by accident. Yet, I did not expect the world to be filled with powerful creatures like you. What makes me confused, why must existences like you be here? If you leave this world, with your power, you can directly become the ruler of the Cosmic Ocean Universe and eight Galaxies.” His movement was not exaggerated. His body only bent slightly, enough to show respect without demeaning himself. That attitude reflected Xiao Tian’s position of being aware of the power gap, yet still maintaining his own dignity. He chose to convey his confusion in a way that still maintained boundaries. He did not flatter excessively, but he also did not hide a reasonable conclusion in his perception. In normal circumstances, such a question could be considered insolent. Yet Xiao Tian conveyed it as someone who truly did not understand, not as someone who was challenging.

Xiao Tian could guess, maybe in the Eternal Era, the buildings that had turned into piles of debris were the existence of a large Clan or Sect. That conclusion arose not from imagination, but from the scale and order of the remaining traces. Only he could not imagine what kind of creature could make this large Clan or Sect fall apart. He was not praising the Eternal Era, because he had already seen enough evidence that the power in that era was beyond the reach of most people. It was precisely because of that that this destruction felt more strange. If a place this big could be turned into debris, then whoever destroyed it must have a reason or power that could not be judged in the usual way. Xiao Tian continued to activate his heavenly eyes. He did not activate them for a moment then stop. He kept them in an active state, letting his perception work continuously in the middle of a world that had lost its complete structure. His gaze changed, not just looking far, but checking

The man did not give Xiao Tian a chance to ask. Not because he did not hear, but because there was indeed no room for questions. After giving the scroll, the old man immediately disappeared. No change in pressure, no remaining ripples. No backward movement, no stepping away. The old man’s existence was like cut off from that space. He did not leave, but stopped existing. Xiao Tian briefly stared at the place where the old man had stood, trying to catch leftover aura or traces, but all he found was silence that once again filled the room. That silence was too clean, leaving no gaps to track. “Why do I have to find it myself when you could just tell me? Ah… too many mysteries, such a hassle,” Xiao Tian said, complaining to the old man, even though the man was no longer there. That complaint was not intended to provoke an answer, but as a natural reaction to the secrecy he faced. Because there was no one he could ask, Xiao Tian chose to open the scroll. He did not delay any lo

The Chaos Sword Sect Patriarch snorted coldly. “No need to talk further, now I will show you, why I have never lost a battle in the same realm.” That snort was not accompanied by an outburst of emotion. It sounded like a separator between words and actions, the final boundary before something irreversible was released into the world. That snort was not an emotional outburst that raged. It was like the final line before action. His words were short, but their meaning was clear. BUZZ!!! Xiao Tian saw the old man who was the Chaos Sword Sect Patriarch form a hand seal. That seal was formed at a steady pace. No movements were speeded up or held back, as if every finger position had its own place from the start. The hand seal’s movement did not look complicated to Xiao Tian’s eyes, but felt like it had an order that must not be wrong. Every change in finger position seemed to call something that had long been waiting for an order. A small change in that hand seal immediately affecte