Can't Break It (Part 2)

Had their conflict already escalated to this level?

Was the Amaterasu Order going to wage all-out war against the Justice Cult?

Too many stray thoughts flashed through Choi Sung-hyuk's mind in an instant. But no matter how terrified and panicked he was, the sunlight filtering through the gaps in the branches and leaves became countless sharp swords, piercing and slicing him from head to toe, leaving him no chance to evade.

Only then did the Justice Cult system built upon the Balance of Truth suddenly realize what was happening and attempt to rapidly elevate the relevant level, but it was already too late.

Choi Sung-hyuk's physical injuries were not actually severe, but on the Mental Layer, it was as though a nuclear bomb had been forcibly stuffed inside him and detonated. Blazing, high-energy force tore his soul from its fleshly shell, roasting and melting it, even rapidly vaporizing it.

In that process, the vivid fragments within Choi Sung-hyuk's memories were also forcibly extracted, turning into intermittent spirit waves that were swiftly transcribed and analyzed until nothing remained.

On the shore, the Horned Demon was also viciously stabbed by the astonishing change at the center of the lake, to the point that he pressed even the wound where blood gushed from his severed finger into the mud.

He felt no pain at all, only turning his head in horror. His eyes could see nothing, yet the aftershock of spiritual radiance shining from the lake's center had already submerged his Mental Layer. In a daze, he could only vaguely "see" a towering divine tree that held up the sky and reached into the earth. Its trunk split in two, seeming both separate and joined; its branches and leaves were luxuriant, with a blazing sun wheel passing among them. He could also vaguely