The void radiance lifted by the Archon of Radiance faltered for a moment, its rhythm disrupted.
"...Shadow Law?"
The Archon's featureless, glowing head turned toward the shadow beneath Qin Chuan's feet. "A call from this level... what did you activate?"
Qin Chuan did not know either, but his instincts told him—something was coming.
From an extremely distant place, perhaps upstream in time, perhaps in a crack between spaces, or even from some already-forgotten Shadow Dimension.
A slash.
There was no warning, no energy trail, not even the sound of air being torn apart.
The slash simply appeared.
As if the shadow itself had suddenly gained a will, it condensed into an invisible blade that reached out from a spatial crack behind Qin Chuan and struck the Archon of Radiance's remaining arm with precision, ruthlessness, and no unnecessary flourish.
The Archon did not even have time to react.
The slash's priority was absurdly high.
It pierced through the Archon's Light Wings barrier, ignored the defenses of the Origin Essence, and acted directly upon the concept of "existence."
Pfft.
Platinum Divine Blood sprayed through the air.
The Archon of Radiance's other arm was severed cleanly at the shoulder.
The Platinum Severed Arm, over a hundred kilometers long, fell again and crashed into the ground of the Origin Realm, kicking up a shock wave even more violent than the last.
The terrain across the entire highland was completely rewritten. New mountains rose from the ground under the pressure of the shock wave, only to collapse beneath the corrosion of higher-dimensional energy.
The Archon's movements froze in place.
The void radiance he held aloft began to flicker unstably as his Origin Essence was severely depleted.
One-third of the dozens of pairs of Light Wings behind him lost their radiance entirely, drooping like singed feathers.