Daniel's words ringed in the ears of everyone present as a foreshadowing of a dire future.
What shocked the observing cultivators the most, was his ability to directly force the space to right out collapse without the need to shatter first. This concept of space was the missing piece for every cultivator that had decided to study spatial essence, and that had stopped many of them from reaching a perfect comprehension of it. This limitation did not only affect their overall comprehension of space, but the degree to which they could study the essence of spacetime as well.
A similar problem persisted in the relationship between the essences of life and death, two essences widely known and easy to observe. While some could choose to take a life or create one to follow their concepts, no one had ever learned how to fully manipulate these two essences, let alone discover a way to combine them.