Changes at the Gate of Stars, Contest for Supreme Authority

"Target lock complete: thirty-six strategic nodes, including the Tianyuan Immortal Sect headquarters' 'Myriad Laws Heavenly Domain,' 'Nine Heavens,' and 'God Transformation Pool'; twenty-seven major branches and the Hall of Longevity headquarters' core, including 'Longevity Peak,' the 'Hall of Longevity,' and the 'Blood Sea Source Eye.'"

The icy information broadcast refreshed at high speed across the blood-red screen.

"Launch mode: saturation barrage."

"Status: arrived at preset launch arrays. Charging complete."

There was no countdown. The instant the order was issued, the one hundred and eight Primordial Lights hidden across the Gate of Stars' territory—

From unknown layers of void, mountain ranges, and beneath the waters, they spewed forth condensed, utterly gray beams of light.

Soundlessly, they pierced the firmament, ignoring all spatial distance. Across the star map, they carved one hundred and eight straight gray scars that ran through the vast sky, like killing chess pieces dropped onto the Star River chessboard.

Wherever they passed, space did not shatter. Instead, it entered a bizarre state of "fading," as though an eraser had wiped away its color and texture, leaving behind only a monotonous, dead-silent gray-white backdrop.

Within the twelve launch silos, black radiance brighter than stars and more despairing than the abyss lit up. That was not light, but ultimate darkness that devoured all light and existence, assimilating even "nothingness" itself.

Whenever a "Godslayer" rose, the surrounding space wailed, collapsed, and twisted, forming a gravitational trap like a miniature black hole. Even light bent and was swallowed by it.

The thirty-six Tianyuan Immortal Sect nodes and twenty-seven Hall of Longevity branches that had been locked onto were struck within mere breaths.

Rumble!

Across the territories of the two sects, within the Core Area, one dead-silent light cavity after another erupted, forming dense arrays.

The one hundred and eight Primordial Lights were