Everything in the surrounding area was covered by the Rune Progenitor’s cosmic phenomenon as this entire region sank into darkness. Then, a solitary beam of radiance illuminated one of the Sixth Mainland elders. The old man looked up as his gaze turned sinister and a giant hammer appeared in his hand. “Are you trying to kill me? So what if it’s a Progenitor! One day, I’ll be able to step into that realm, and then I will lead the Toolwielder bloodline to kill our way into the Fifth Mainland, which will forever-”

At that point, his body began to shatter. 

The elder screamed as indescribably boundless rune lines swept across his body. His death shocked everyone within the Whitecliff Region as he dissipated before their eyes. The entire Cosmic Sea trembled as the wave flowed out, spreading over the rest of the Innerverse. It was as if it was trying to topple the universe itself.

The strength of this wave of rune lines was something rarely ever seen. Even though Lu Yin had seen Yuan Shi and the other peak powerhouses go all out in the Outerverse, their full power could not match the terrifying power of this elder who had just spoken up. He had not been a Cosmic Imprinter, but rather one level higher—one of the Sixth Mainland’s few Empyrean Imprinters, who were second only to the three Progenitors. 

Additionally, he had been carrying the hammer, which indicated that he should have been Ancestor Toolwielder from the Toolcasting family, one of the Four Empyreans of the Sixth Mainland’s Daosource Sect.

Ancestor Toolwielder had been an Empyrean Imprinter with a...