"Haha..."
Laughter rang out across the Devil Plains. The owner of the delicate sword revealed himself, throwing back his head and laughing wildly. "Yuanshi, Tongtian, Buddha, Laozi—you all died just like that? Haha... There's no one left in the Eternal Life Realm.
"Twenty-Four War Swords, how many people have died for you throughout the ages? In the end, you are fated to return to our realm. With so many Half-Ancestors lost, no one remains in the Eternal Life Realm. Our realm's army can march straight in..."
His words were chilling, his gaze dark and ghostly. His goal was no longer merely to seize the War Swords; he intended to wipe out the entire Eternal Life Realm. After all, this was a vast world filled with countless opportunities and possibilities.
A streak of rosy light illuminated the Devil Plains. An incomparably oppressive aura seemed to spread through the sky, as though an ancient fiend was about to emerge.
"The illusory world will ultimately be destroyed..."
A vast voice echoed through heaven and earth. Immediately afterward, dark clouds filled the sky, suppressing all the rising morning glow. The rolling clouds above the Devil Plains resembled heavy mountains of lead, crushing everyone until they could barely breathe.
"Rumble..."
Lightning struck down. Golden War Chariots were moving within the dark clouds, and they unleashed world-destroying bolts of lightning, sending out overwhelming energy fluctuations.
The sky seemed to shatter. Amid deafening roars, enormous golden War Chariots descended from the clouds. Then figures flickered in and out of existence, while destructive spatial rifts stretched all the way into the distant starry sky.
The towering leaden clouds were scattered by the shockwaves. The eastern Taiyang seemed to have fallen, revealing the starry sky at the horizon as destructive spatial rifts plunged into it.
Dark clouds blanketed the