280: The Five Supreme Beings have fallen.

Gu Changge looked at them indifferently, his eyes devoid of any ripple, showing neither the smugness of a victor nor pity for the soon-to-be dead.

To him, these five individuals were merely obstacles that needed clearing, and clues for uncovering the truth.

Gu Changge stopped speaking, pointed his joined fingers like a sword, and remotely slashed towards The Five Supremes across the Void Realm.

"Buzz—"

An invisible suction force materialized out of thin air. It did not extract their Life Origin, but precisely locked onto the "immortal spirit qi" within their bodies—the Qi that did not belong to this world and carried an alien aura!

The Five Supremes were horrified to feel that the "immortal spirit qi" supporting their vigorous vitality and slowing their decay was being pulled by invisible threads, forcibly stripped from the depths of their Dao foundations!

Five halos of light, each a different color but all radiating an extraordinary aura, were forced out from above their heads and hovered in the air.

Stripped of the support of the "immortal spirit qi," the aura of The Five Supremes instantly deflated like a punctured ball!

Their faces visibly aged and withered, their skin became covered in wrinkles, their eyes dimmed, and their vitality dried up. They completely reverted to the decaying, near-exhausted state appropriate for self-severed Supremes.

Even maintaining basic levitation became difficult; they collapsed onto the ground, gasping for breath, their eyes filled with despair.

Gu Changge reached out, drew the five masses of "immortal spirit qi" into his palm, and probed them slightly with his Divine Thought.

"Hmph."

He let out a cold snort. With a slight twist of his fingers, the five masses of "immortal spirit qi"—which the Supremes regarded as priceless treasures—instantly scattered, annihilated like cheap smoke, and vanished without a trace.

"Impure and contaminated. Merely defective products, diluted and mixed with traces of Immortal Realm Law."

A flicker of disdain flashed in Gu Changge's eyes.

"To be bought by such inferior goods, leading you to betray the world that birthed you—it is both lamentable and hateful."

"Your sins cannot be cleansed even by a hundred deaths. However, your memories still hold some value."

His tone was calm, yet it sounded like the final judgment.

After speaking, the Dao runes circulated once more in Gu Changge's eyes, deeper and more vast than before.

His gaze seemed to materialize, like two chains of divine order, piercing directly into the deepest part of The Five Supremes' Sea of Consciousness!

"Ugh, ahhh—!"

A sensation of Soul tearing, millions of times more painful than the destruction of the Physical Body, instantly swept over the remaining consciousness of The Five Supremes!

Their Divine Souls were pierced, ground, and dissected as if placed upon billions of sharp needles!

Gu Changge forcibly flipped through all the memory fragments of their long lives:

Rising from obscurity, competing among myriad races, alongside surging Prodigies, fighting bloody battles all the way, finally achieving the Dao and becoming an Emperor, reigning over the Universe with brilliant glory... Then, reaching the end of their Lifespan, unwilling to peacefully perish, severing themselves in the restricted zone, lying dormant for ages, oscillating between sleep and waking, witnessing the change of eras, their mentality gradually shifting from looking down on all beings to becoming twisted, greedy, and clinging to life...

Finally, the opportunity that changed everything: the mysterious cross-realm teleportation Formation, the tempting immortal spirit qi, the promises from the "Immortal Realm"...

How they moved from hesitation to determination, how they secretly laid down the Formation to extract Origin at various critical nodes throughout the Xuanhuang Great World.

How they obtained immortal spirit qi through repeated transactions to extend their lives, and how, in their desperate yearning for eternal life and the path to Immortality, they gradually became numb, selectively ignoring the decay of heaven and earth caused by the loss of this world's Origin...

Countless images, sounds, emotions, and conspiracies... like a bursting flood, were forcibly extracted, organized, and read by Gu Changge using Supreme power.

Especially the details concerning the cross-realm teleportation Formation, the methods of communication, the layout diagrams of the Formation, and the vague information they sensed about the "Immortal Realm"... all were clearly stripped away by Gu Changge and imprinted upon his mind.

This process was a torture more cruel than death by a thousand cuts for The Five Supremes.

All their secrets, all their pride, all their darkness, and all their schemes were laid bare under the sun, leaving them utterly devoid of dignity.

After several breaths, the Dao runes circulating in Gu Changge's eyes slowly subsided. He had obtained all the information he desired.

As for The Five Supremes, their eyes were completely dim, their Divine Souls shattered, leaving only the most fundamental specks of Soul light faintly flickering like candles in the wind.

Gu Changge did not spare them another glance, merely uttering four words:

"Ashes to ashes, dust to dust."

He gave a gentle flick of his sleeve.

There was no earth-shattering explosion, no dazzling brilliance.

The Five Supremes who had once stood at the peak of the Universe and dominated for ages—their Emperor Bodies, their fragmented Divine Souls, and all traces of their existence—completely vanished between heaven and earth with that casual flick.

Along with the turmoil, conspiracies, and sins they brought, they all returned to eternal nothingness.

"Boom—!!!"

An indescribable wail, originating from the Origin of the Universe, suddenly erupted!

It was not a sound, but the violent trembling of the Myriad Dao Law! It was as if a crucial pillar supporting heaven and earth had suddenly collapsed!

Immediately following this, strange phenomena abruptly arose in the vast Star Domain!

Boundless blood-colored clouds appeared out of thin air, gathering into a sea!

These were not ordinary clouds, but were formed by fragments of the Great Dao Law and the sorrowful Dao Rhyme scattered when an existence in the Emperor Realm perished!

Emperor's Fall Blood Rain!

Dark red blood rain drizzled down from the blood clouds. Every drop was immensely heavy, crushing the Void Realm and containing endless sorrow and destructive Qi!

This was heaven and earth weeping for the demise of the Supremes; it was the Law mourning the passing of Great Emperors!

Wherever the blood rain fell, stars dimmed, and all creation mourned together!

This was the most solemn "funeral" phenomenon in existence, only triggered when an Emperor-level being completely perished!

However—

Just as the sky-covering blood clouds had gathered, the Emperor's Fall Blood Rain was about to pour down, and the entire Universe was submerged in this sorrowful atmosphere—

"Noisy."

Gu Changge frowned slightly, seemingly quite impatient with this heavenly phenomenon.

He didn't even look at the terrifying blood clouds covering the Star Sea; he simply raised his hand casually and waved gently towards the firmament.

It was as if he were shooing away an annoying mosquito.

"Disperse."

One word spoken, and the Law followed the word!

A formless, immaterial will, yet one that transcended the Myriad Dao, instantly spread out!

The Universe Law, which had been wailing and trembling, was instantly smoothed out by an invisible giant hand, returning to silence!

The terrifying blood clouds, which covered endless Star Domains and contained monstrous sorrow, instantly melted and disintegrated like snow thrown into the scorching sun, vanishing Shadowless!

The Emperor's Fall Blood Rain, which was about to fall and was heavy enough to crush stars, simply evaporated, as if it had never appeared!

Clarity and stillness were instantly restored between heaven and earth.

All phenomena, all wails, and all sorrow were forcibly interrupted and completely erased by Gu Changge's casual wave!

Heaven and earth were even stripped of the right to mourn for The Five Supremes!

The core of the entire Desolate Heaven Restricted Zone immediately fell into a deathly silence.

Only Gu Changge remained, standing quietly in the Void Realm, his white robes pristine as snow, along with Little Hei and Little Bai, who watched from afar with solemn respect.

Gu Changge's gaze looked toward the depths of the Void Realm, seemingly piercing through endless space, seeing the Formation Flags that had been laid down, and the shadowy hand of the "Immortal Realm" that might exist in the unseen distance.

"Immortal... Realm..."

He muttered softly to himself, the depth in his eyes surpassing the Star Domain.