"What is this?"
"The power of... Reality?"
Xuantian Daozun, with his cultivation at the Zenith Realm, rapidly declined, as if revealing a "true situation."
The supreme killing treasure in Xuantian Daozun's hand, ranked among the top in all heavens and myriad realms, turned into a piece of scrap metal in the sewer.
Useless scrap metal, devoid of all spiritual energy and radiance.
Xuantian Daozun's entire cultivation began to turn transparent, ethereal, and finally ceased to exist.
Cultivation utterly lost!
Cultivation utterly ruined!
Cultivation reduced to zero!
However—it wasn't just his cultivation!
Xuantian Daozun even felt his own existence, in the face of this reality, was illusory!
The essence of fantasy!
He had never existed!
Since he had never existed, since his life was all illusion, a product of fantasy, how could it contend with reality?
The Qi Yuan arrived in an instant, and Xuantian Daozun, the former Zenith Realm powerhouse, perished without a sound.
Even though Zenith Realm cultivators knew all, could do all, were called "both distant and near," surpassing the Spirit Refining Realm's "seeing all emptiness, all emptiness seeing me, all time and space free and eternal,"
They were ultimately just illusions.
Facing the power of reality, resistance was impossible.
How fragile was the essence of fantasy before reality?
"No... this is impossible!"
"This isn't real!"
In all the heavens and myriad realms, the peak powerhouses who witnessed this scene were utterly horrified.
Zenith Realm cultivators in the world of Great Dao contention could be considered the strongest among the strongest in many top-tier worlds across the heavens and myriad realms.
And they perished just like that?
Perished because of a mere martial arts-level attack?
This wasn't even martial dao, just martial arts-level! How could it achieve such a feat?
The powerhouses of the heavens were shaken to their core, feeling their worldviews completely overturned, and everything they knew was trampled into the ground.
"Reality..."
"This is an attack from the narrative layer above!"
In the mysterious worlds of the top-tier realms, organizations like the Chaos Tearers, the Church of the Shattered God, the Hand of the Ancient Serpent, and the Society for the Study of the Supernatural jointly announced this concept to all heavens and myriad realms.
"This anomaly possesses upper-narrative characteristics. The reason it could use a martial arts-level attack to bring about the demise of Xuantian Daozun at the Zenith Realm is precisely because it possesses a higher level of reality!"
"Upper narratives possess an all-around crushing advantage over lower narratives. Therefore, no matter how strong a Zenith Realm cultivator is, they are merely descriptions within the narrative! Meaningless in the eyes of an upper-narrative entity!"
"An existence transcending the narrative layer... ordinary peak powerhouses of the heavens can no longer deal with it!"
The powerhouses of the heavens were shocked again and again.
"It's actually an upper-narrative entity..."
"Could it be an entity like Marvel's One-Above-All?"
"It is almost supreme above all heavens. Can the heavens and myriad realms accommodate such an upper-narrative entity? Please have the Foundation completely contain this anomaly! Restore it to the order of the heavens and myriad realms themselves!"
Among the powerhouses of the heavens, some had deeper contact with the mysterious worlds.
They knew that the Foundation's early stages originated within the mysterious worlds, and the mysterious worlds were the base camp of the Foundation.
The Chaos Tearers, the Church of the Shattered God, the Hand of the Ancient Serpent, and the Society for the Study of the Supernatural were originally organizations on the same level as the Foundation, fighting amongst themselves in the mysterious worlds. When the Foundation extended its control beyond the mysterious worlds to the heavens and myriad realms, it had already turned these formerly antagonistic organizations into subordinate agencies.
Now that the Chaos Tearers, the Church of the Shattered God, the Hand of the Ancient Serpent, and the Society for the Study of the Supernatural had jointly issued a declaration to all heavens and myriad realms, it proved that the Foundation was aware of Fang Ming's existence and could contain him!
After the announcements from numerous organizations in the mysterious worlds, the powerhouses of the heavens also understood Fang Ming's essence: an upper-narrative entity.
Transcending narrative, an entity belonging to the upper narrative of the heavens and myriad realms. Perhaps a student who had sneaked down from the upper narrative. A mere martial arts-level student might not be much in the upper narrative, but in these lower-narrative heavens and myriad realms, he was an almost invincible existence.
Responding to illusion with reality, he was almost invincible. And they, the former powerhouses of the heavens, were like lower-narrative entities before him.
"Reality and illusion..."
"So that's why the Zenith Realm cultivator was defeated!"
The powerhouses of the heavens had some understanding of Fang Ming's existence and essence.
In an unknown space, independent of the heavens and myriad realms.
"Anomaly: Ω-39179."
"Object Class: Unclassified."
"Description: Ω-39179 is a boy who appears to be around fourteen years old, wearing the standard uniform of Purple Cloud Academy."
"Purple Cloud Academy is suspected to be in the upper narrative, but Ω-203 has not found this academy in the upper narrative."
"Ω-39179 possesses intelligence, comparable to heavenly cultivators who have cultivated for trillions of years. It is not an inanimate object and can communicate."
"He used a power that is considered real relative to the heavens and myriad realms, causing Xuantian Daozun, who was suppressed into an illusory being, to perish."
"Ω-39179 possesses perfect and peerless beauty. Preliminary determination suggests it is a root algorithm. Its information depth is extremely profound. It is mandatorily stipulated that it can make any non-hostile female fall for it. It is mandatorily stipulated that it can cause some males to fall for it, regardless of cultivation level. Within the root algorithm, Ω-39179 possesses traits of a pretty boy, a uke, and a top."
"Tentative Containment Procedures: Due to its narrative-layer nature, Ω-3153 will be used for containment."
The Foundation's Supreme Overseers, the O5 Council members, issued the order.
D-class personnel, using their lives, activated anomaly Ω-3153.
...
In the heavens and myriad realms, Fang Ming, who had just defeated Xuantian Daozun, felt an extremely dangerous sensation approaching.
"This is an attack at the root algorithm level... It's not the Temporal Bureau that's acting, but the Foundation?"
Fang Ming murmured.
The foundation of this world of "Heavenly Flow" works is quite good. Besides the peak-known world powerhouses already established in the heavens and myriad realms, there are also forces that transcend the heavens and myriad realms and exist alongside them.
The Foundation, the Temporal Bureau, the Planar Trading Organization, the City of Heavens.
The true foundation of these forces can create heavens and myriad realms, destroy heavens and myriad realms, and even view heavens and myriad realms as lower narratives.
The power of reality carried by Fang Ming's Qi Yuan segment was indeed difficult for the powerhouses of this world to resist, but this did not mean that the Qi Yuan segment could roam freely in this "Heavenly Flow" world.
This is because organizations like the Foundation still possess the strength and ability to attack, capture, and contain Fang Ming.
The Temporal Bureau could also do this, but the Foundation arrived faster.