The Jiuzhou Plane was unspooling from its cosmic spindle.
Across ten thousand miles of the mortal realm, from the Western Sea to the Eastern Mountain Gate, the land-wide crust buckled under total ground-shaking shear.
In thirty sovereign empires, ancient mountain ranges shuddered and began to slide into valleys. Great rivers reversed their flow, churning with boiling white froth. Coastal harbors saw the ocean recede three miles into the horizon, heralding a world-ending megatsunami that threatened to drown half the civilized world.
Worst of all, the planet itself was wobbling.
The massive fracture at Mount Apex had introduced a thirty-billion-ton mass deficit along the main crust-sink fault. He knocked the world-size lithosphere off its spinning balance point.
The sky stars above began tracing wild, looping ellipses in the night sky!
Down in the underground vault, four thousand meters below Mount Apex, seventy Grandmasters and Pavilion Master Ren Qingzi were being thrown wildly across the floor by four-G upright accelerations.
“The Axis of Heaven has snapped!” Ren Qingzi screamed, his fingernails bleeding as he clung to a bolted star-bronze stone stand. “The Jiuzhou Plane is tumbling through the sky void! In ten minutes, the sky-high balance will fail. Our world will plunge into the Sun or freeze in eternal night!”
