The strike that surpassed a hundred times the speed of sound did not merely sever the moonlight descending from above.
The terrifying blade light, its momentum undiminished, swept across the heavens and forcibly split the entire starry sky apart.
"Boom—!"
Amid the explosive roar, the ceiling that had transformed into a starry sky was cleaved in two. It trembled beneath the thunderous crash, raining down countless chunks of stone and rubble.
The ceiling was pierced straight through, opening a path to the second underground level of the Twenty-second District.
At last, the lightning-fast blade light split open the starry sky of the second level as well, piercing toward the first.
Only after even the first level's ceiling had been cleaved open did the blade light erupt from the surface of the Twenty-second District, slicing through countless wind turbines as it shot straight into the clouds.
In the end, the cold and terrifying blade light vanished beneath the true starry sky, disappearing without a trace.
Yet the three layers of underground streets whose starry skies had been viciously split apart suffered devastating damage. The entire underground area shook, even creating a sensation of falling, making people wonder whether this Twenty-second District was plunging into hell.
Amid such terrifying upheaval, Rearguard Water's figure appeared within the moonlight that had been cut in two.
There was not the slightest movement.
Not the faintest reaction.
That incomparably powerful Saint slowly fell from midair.
Several seconds later, he crashed heavily into a crater.
At once, dust billowed up from within the crater.
The countless stones and rubble raining down nearly buried the entire crater, almost burying Rearguard Water alive beneath them.
"Clang..."
Amid a shining arc of light, Fang Li, who had unleashed that overwhelmingly terrifying strike, sheathed the Commanding Sword.
"Ugh..."
An intense pain