"Chen! Fei!"
A hoarse roar tore from Shi Pojun's throat, like the curse of a hellish ghost.
He stared fixedly at Chen Fei, the final flames of madness burning in his eyes. "I'll wait for you! I'll wait for the day you are eternally imprisoned in Xuning Abyss, suffering the bone-eroding agony of ten thousand years of cold baleful intent, never to be reborn for all eternity!"
Before his words had faded, Shi Pojun's shattered body suddenly erupted with its final—and fiercest—radiance.
That light contained all the origin he had yet to burn away, every fragment of his broken Dao Domain, and even his final wisp of divine soul will.
All Phenomena Burned, Soul Sacrifice to the Blade!
No defense, no parry—Shi Pojun chose to self-destruct his Dao body and sacrifice his remnant soul, pouring every last thing he possessed into the flame blade that was on the verge of shattering.
"Boom!"
There was no blade light, no halberd shadow—only a blazing white sphere of light that abruptly swelled outward.
Within the sphere, Shi Pojun's twisted, broken figure could vaguely be seen, along with the flame blade bearing all his hatred and destruction, completely collapsing into oblivion.
A terrifying Energy Storm erupted from the sphere's center, spreading and crashing wildly in every direction.
Everything in its path—matter, rocks, soil, surviving plants, even space itself—silently vanished, reduced to their most primordial particles.
A massive black pit dozens of miles wide and bottomless appeared in the spot in an instant, its walls smooth as mirrors.
This was Shi Pojun's self-detonation at the end of his life, paid for with everything he possessed. Its might even surpassed the slash he had unleashed earlier by burning his origin.
The destructive energy at its core was enough to heavily wound or even kill an ordinary