The sacred artifact "Dawn" lived up to its name the moment it appeared, like a point of dawning light piercing the darkness with unstoppable force.
The Savage Demon Hammer had originally been aggressive and overbearing, its gigantic lion head biting and crashing from side to side. It sought not only to tear apart this space, but also to find Dongfang Da Qian and smash him into pulp with a single blow.
That savage, tyrannical power capable of pulverizing everything struck without distinction. If it escaped, the entirety of the capital would be left in ruin and devastation.
Zhou You watched the situation unfold as steadily as Mount Tai. Beside him, Lian Feihong looked somewhat tense.
He heard the other man ask, "Nanchen Prefectural Lord, this thing is too fierce. Can it really be contained?"
Suddenly, a boundless sea of fire descended, severing the Savage Demon Hammer's surging momentum of destruction.
White fire, crimson fire, azure fire, and flames nearly transparent danced together, forming this rich and varied inferno.
If that were all, it would merely have been an ordinary fire-controlling secret treasure, incapable of suppressing the Savage Demon Hammer.
For beneath the lion-head hammer, even flames without physical form would be brutally smashed apart and reduced to nothing.
Boom, boom, boom—the hammer blows rang out one after another like drumbeats.
The Savage Demon Hammer punched through the sea of fire again and again. The shattered flames could not recover, and even the surrounding blaze could not fill the gaps, leaving hole after hole like a tattered piece of cloth.
Dongfang Da Qian appeared. His true body had already emerged above the Savage Demon Hammer, his hands inverted, fingertips blooming outward like petals.
"Dawn!"
The two words that left his mouth were both the sacred artifact's name and the honorific title