He is... Refining Heaven!

"Mad! He's absolutely mad!"

A Demon Race prodigy saw Chen Changqing's actions and was so terrified that his soul nearly fled his body. Scrambling backward on hands and feet, he retreated in panic.

That was Chaos Annihilation Divine Light!

It was the embodiment of Heaven's Will, a destructive force meant specifically to erase heretical existences that the world could not tolerate!

Forget meeting it with a hammer—even brushing against a trace of it would leave a late Tribulation Crossing expert's soul and body utterly annihilated, without even bones remaining!

This Li Feiyu was courting death!

On the high platform, Patriarch Long Gan's heart clenched. He instinctively wanted to intervene, but beneath the heavenly tribulation, outside interference would only make Heaven's might surge a hundredfold. When that happened, the entire Eastern Sea Dragon Palace would be buried alongside him!

He could only watch helplessly as that black hammer and that gray bolt of lightning were about to collide.

Time seemed to stretch infinitely in that instant.

Under the gaze of tens of thousands.

Hammer and light finally met.

There was no earth-shattering explosion as expected, no terrifying scene of laws collapsing.

The gray lightning bolt, enough to make even a True Lord tremble, struck the Haotian Hammer and instantly became like a fragile soap bubble. Without even letting out a wail, it silently vanished and dissipated into the air.

Casual and effortless.

Light as drifting clouds, gentle as the breeze.

As though what had just been smashed apart by that hammer was not Heaven's divine punishment, but merely a blind fly.

"..."

"..."

The entire Dragon Gate Stone Platform, and even the sea for tens of thousands of miles around it, sank into a strange, suffocating silence.

Everyone's expressions froze on their faces.

The Demon Race prodigy who had just been