The Ice Fire Lotus Platform and the World-Ending Blood River collided with a thunderous crash beneath the gaze of the masses.
There was no imagined earth-shattering explosion.
Nor was there any energy shockwave capable of destroying heaven and earth.
In that instant, the entire world seemed to lose its sound and color.
The enormous Ice Fire Lotus Platform began spinning at high speed the moment it touched the blood river.
Its crimson flame petals released a scorching heat that burned all things.
Its icy-blue mystic frost petals radiated an extreme chill that froze everything.
One cold and one hot, the two ultimate powers formed a perfect cycle.
Once that raging, roaring blood river, brimming with filth and evil, entered the lotus platform's range, it was like a clay ox entering the sea, endlessly ground away and purified by the rotating power of ice and fire.
The countless wronged souls wailing within the blood river turned into wisps of green smoke beneath the flames, scattering between heaven and earth.
The foul blood churning in the river froze solid beneath the ice, then was ground into powder.
"No! This is impossible!"
Blood River Demon Venerable let out an incredulous shriek.
His Divine Ability, his most powerful means of attack, had actually... actually been neutralized by the other side in a way he had never even heard of?
What exactly was that lotus?!
Why did it possess both the power of destruction and purification?!
He could not understand it.
And he no longer had time to think.
Because after grinding away most of the blood river's power, the Ice Fire Lotus Platform continued onward without losing momentum, still suppressing him.
"Block it for me!"
Blood River Demon Venerable's face twisted savagely as he mobilized all the Demonic Essence remaining in his body, forming