Bai Cangshu of the Root and the Conceptual Staircase

Boom!

An unimaginable light erupted from the end of the sky.

Countless colors shifted within it, as though every color, flavor, and meaning in the world existed within it.

Meng Qi's entire body was rigid. Pinned to the ground by Gu Xiaosang, he barely managed to raise his head and look at the sky behind the Stone Ape. He was no longer sure whether that place could still be called the sky.

Everything had vanished. Faintly, he could see fragments of mountains and the trails left behind when the atmosphere shattered into blazing white dragons.

Something had been broken, but he had no idea what it was.

"What exactly was that..."

He could not comprehend what that attack just now had been either.

The next moment, he heard a heaven-shaking roar from ten thousand meters away.

"Hah—ah!"

Boom!

An invisible shockwave swept across the air, forming a massive ring. The Netherworld, which should have been completely shrouded in demonic qi, Demonic Qi, and miasma and thus eternally dim and lightless, now unusually revealed a clear blue sky.

That blazing white giant ring appeared out of thin air above the sky.

Endless colors continued to gush forth, but Meng Qi and Gu Xiaosang had no time to feel the changes in heaven and earth. They turned their heads and saw golden cracks beginning to appear across the back of the enormous Stone Ape that nearly held up the sky.

Meng Qi's heart skipped a beat. The next instant, he saw the Stone Ape's massive arm explode inch by inch. Amid rumblings like mountains shaking and earth splitting, the ten-thousand-meter giant arm collapsed and fell.

That figure wrapped in golden and red aura was now completely engulfed by flames of every color, its form utterly impossible to make out.

Meng Qi could