From the fragments of time, they clearly saw that fearsome, sky-shrouding giant hand reaching down from the River of Time. Its size was immeasurable, boundless, covering fully half the sky above the Endless Heaven Realm as it slammed down upon it.
This vast, eternal, and immortal great world immediately shook violently, then began to collapse, heaven and earth splitting asunder.
The myriad Heavenly Dao patterns, spatial Dao principles, and Heavenly Venerate secret runes interwoven within the boundary walls of this Endless Heaven Realm rapidly annihilated and crumbled, unable to withstand such a terrifying blow of immense horror.
Countless cracks spread densely, each one stretching for hundreds of millions of li or more, tens of thousands of li wide, crisscrossing every corner of the Eternal Heaven Realm, tearing open this Supreme Heavenly Venerate's world of origin.
Yet, this was not all.
After slamming the Endless Heaven Realm into a state of heaven-collapsing, earth-splitting ruin, riddled with cracks like a crystal ball, that sky-shrouding hand did not stop. It continued to descend, landing below, striking the Heavenly Venerate Mountain that stood at the center of the Endless Heaven Realm, like a pillar holding up the heavens that supported the entire realm.
The Heavenly Venerate Mountain was the core of the Endless Heaven Realm, containing the Heavenly Dao mighty power of the Supreme Heavenly Venerate.
At this moment, the Heavenly Venerate Mountain erupted with billions of layers of radiance. Layer upon layer of heavenly majesty, sensing the threat, erupted autonomously to resist the strike of that sky-shrouding hand.
Among them were numerous Eternal Heavenly Patterns and the Heavenly Venerate secret runes inscribed by the Endless Heavenly Venerate, all interwoven together.
But, none of this worked.
That sky-shrouding hand contained unparalleled power. All resistance was crushed and destroyed as easily as breaking dry twigs.
Finally, the sky-shrouding hand struck the Heavenly Venerate Mountain.
Boom—!
The lofty, unreachable Heavenly Venerate Mountain shook violently. Then, in the next instant, the upper half of the mountain exploded.
Innumerable fragments of the mountain body ignited, transforming into massive meteors that crashed upon the earth, directly exterminating the countless factions and races that had inhabited the Endless Heaven Realm for generations.
Watching through the fragments of time, everyone felt a chill of horror.
So, this was the truth behind the extinction of the Endless Heavenly Clan.
But, who exactly was the owner of that sky-shrouding hand?
Why would such a terrifying supreme existence attack the Endless Heavenly Clan?
Daring to attack the Endless Heavenly Clan—didn't they fear the Endless Heavenly Venerate's retaliation at the time?
Moreover, that was the River of Time. Not long before, the Endless Heavenly Venerate had just stepped onto the River of Time.
But when the sky-shrouding hand appeared and launched a devastating strike against the Endless Heavenly Clan, where was the Endless Heavenly Venerate at that time?
Everyone continued to look at the other fragments of time. These fragments all recorded the crucial truths of that era.
In the sky, a majestic Heavenly Venerate ancient city soared upwards—it was the Endless Ancient City.
Like other Eternal Heavenly Clans, the core members of the Endless Heavenly Clan were all within the ancient city. Watching as the Endless Heaven Realm suddenly collapsed, heaven and earth splitting, and an utterly terrifying sky-shrouding hand descended from the blood-stained River of Time to shatter the Heavenly Venerate Mountain, the powerful experts of the Endless Heavenly Clan felt terror and dread.
The most powerful group of the Endless Heavenly Clan soared into the sky to meet that fearsome sky-shrouding hand.
However, before they could even fully approach, merely the boundless oppressive might emanating from that sky-shrouding hand caused the many peerless experts of the Endless Heavenly Clan to fall to the earth like raindrops. Many of the mightiest were pulverized, body and soul extinguished, before they even hit the ground.
Boom—!
Boom—!
Boom—!
From three directions of the collapsing Endless Heaven Realm, colossal pillars that reached the heavens rose, releasing vast, endless majestic power. They were Ancient Great Venerables.
They temporarily stabilized the collapsing Endless Heaven Realm.
The three Ancient Great Venerables soared into the sky, arriving simultaneously above the Endless Ancient City. Gazing at that sky-shrouding hand radiating an aura of extreme terror, they revealed grave expressions.
For, from that sky-shrouding hand, they sensed an aura of extreme danger.
Yet, they still charged skyward without regard for their own safety to battle the sky-shrouding hand.
Naturally, as seen through the fragments of time and from what they had witnessed earlier, the fates of the three Ancient Great Venerables were not good.
Sure enough, in the fragments of time, the figures of the three Ancient Great Venerables were all slapped down from the sky by the sky-shrouding hand. Their Great Venerable bodies shattered into pieces, their blood staining the Endless Heaven Realm.
All suffered fatal, irreparable heavy injuries.
They could only watch helplessly as the Endless Heaven Realm, under another strike from the sky-shrouding hand, continued to collapse heaven and earth, rumbling as it crumbled further.
The Endless Ancient City was half-destroyed. Countless clansmen of the Endless Heavenly Clan were utterly exterminated. Under such a horrifying catastrophe, there wasn't even a chance to preserve a seed of their lineage.
Finally, they saw one Ancient Great Venerable, on the brink of death, use his final strength to tear open the restraints of the sky-shrouding hand. He sealed a youth of supreme, peerless talent within a relatively intact Ancient Great Venerable weapon and sent it away.
All three Ancient Great Venerables met tragic deaths here.
Although they had already seen the outcome, witnessing this scene still made everyone's hearts sink.
Even experts as powerful as three Ancient Great Venerables died so tragically. What kind of calamity had befallen the Endless Heavenly Clan?
At the very end, the fragments of time recorded that on that blood-stained River of Time, the sky-shrouding hand was severed, shattering into pieces above the Endless Heaven Realm.
But also, a majestic, peerless figure charged out from the River of Time, surrounded by infinite fragments of time. He let out a mournful cry that shook the heavens, then suddenly plummeted downwards. Streams of bloody light erupted from his body, staining the entire Endless Heaven Realm with blood...
This was the final fragment recorded.
Everyone fell silent.
The extinction of a once supremely prosperous Eternal Heavenly Clan.
The tragic deaths of three Ancient Great Venerables.
That final figure was likely the Endless Heavenly Venerate.
No one knew how the Endless Heavenly Venerate fell. Perhaps he had engaged in the most terrifying life-and-death battle with the owner of that sky-shrouding hand. Without a doubt, the owner of the sky-shrouding hand was absolutely a Heavenly Venerate-level supreme existence; otherwise, they could not have slain three Ancient Great Venerables.
Only another Supreme Heavenly Venerate could kill a Supreme Heavenly Venerate.
But, which Supreme Heavenly Venerate was the owner of that sky-shrouding hand?
Ye Chen silently watched the scenes on the fragments of time, viewing them again and again.
However, each time he looked, the temporal fragments were rapidly diminishing.
He knew it was the influence of Supreme Heavenly Venerate power. If not for these being the Endless Heavenly Venerate's fragments of time, and because the Endless Heavenly Venerate was most proficient in the Space-Time Heavenly Dao, they could never have been recorded at all.
But, what exactly happened after the Endless Heavenly Venerate went onto the River of Time?
Why did it attract that Heavenly Venerate-level sky-shrouding hand to descend and exterminate the Endless Heavenly Clan?
Why did the Endless Heavenly Venerate ultimately die so suddenly?
Ye Chen wanted to peer through the fragments of time to glimpse the truth of that era.
From his body surged the Heavenly Dao mighty power of a Supreme Heavenly Venerate.
Having reached the Supreme Heavenly Venerate level, even the River of Time could be traversed to some extent, crossing past and present.
Now, Ye Chen intended to pierce through past and present, attempting to glimpse the truth of that era.
Boom—!
Chaos light erupted violently. With Ye Chen as the origin point, Heavenly Venerate mighty power bloomed, shaking heaven and earth, causing everyone around him to change expression.
In the next moment, Ye Chen, utilizing the fragments of time left by the Endless Heavenly Venerate, forcefully pierced through past and present, heading towards that time period when the Endless Heavenly Venerate fell.