The tenth axe phantom slowly condensed in Pangu True Body's hand. Unlike the previous axe phantoms, the silver-white radiance did not slash forth at extreme speed. Instead, it swept through the void at a steady, almost sluggish pace, tracing an arc that spanned several Great Thousand Worlds. The arc's path was not complex, yet it contained the most primal, most fundamental power of order from Pangu's force of creation—as though the light that had cleaved Chaos apart at the dawn of creation had been compressed for countless Eons before being released once more. Wherever the arc passed, the entire region of Chaos fell still—not because it had been frozen, but because the structures of its laws seemed to retreat voluntarily to either side, forming a clean passage along the axe phantom's path.
The Heavenly Dao incarnation's expression finally underwent a change that could truly be called "shaken" the instant that axe phantom drew near. It could sense that the power contained within the axe phantom far surpassed every prior strike. It was not merely an accumulation of force, but Pangu True Body's final blow, one that united all the experience, trajectories, and points of fracture accumulated by the previous nine axe phantoms. Like a silver blade of light stretching across the void, the axe phantom landed precisely upon the core fissure that had been repeatedly struck over this time.
The Long Spear and giant sword let out a shattering screech like metal being stretched to its limit the instant they touched the axe phantom. Under the axe phantom's relentless cutting, the purple Long Spear began to fracture layer by layer from its tip, like a spear being whittled apart. Its broken fragments turned into countless tiny purple motes of light and faded into the void. Driven onward by the axe