One Breath, One Venerable

Then Hong Yuan threw a sudden punch forward, at the Sixth Heaven that had just retreated and had yet to stabilize itself!

Three Thousand Great Dao Divine Light condensed into that fist. There were no fancy moves in this punch, nor any mysterious transformations of law.

There were only a few words—purest, most brutal, and most unreasonable.

Great strength worked miracles!

That Sixth Heaven's core alarm was pushed to its absolute threshold in that instant.

It frantically activated every defensive protocol. Seventeen layers of high-density energy barriers unfolded before it one atop another, each capable of withstanding a full-force strike from an expert of the same level.

At the same time, it was retreating, retreating at the fastest speed possible by burning its core to the limit.

But that punch was too fast.

So fast that it had only raised three barriers before the fist arrived.

"Bang!"

The first barrier shattered.

"Bang!"

The second barrier shattered.

"Bang!"

The third barrier shattered.

The three dull booms nearly overlapped, enough to shake countless stars apart.

Then came the fourth, the fifth, the sixth...

Hong Yuan's fist crushed through them all. The seventeen barriers were like seventeen flimsy sheets of paper, pierced through one after another by the same iron rod without delaying it even for a breath.

That Sixth Heaven watched helplessly as this fist tore through all its defenses. It watched the Three Thousand Great Dao Divine Light wrapped around the fist grow brighter and brighter, closer and closer. It watched its core shell become like thin porcelain before that punch.

Crack—boom!!!

It did not shatter. It exploded.

Silver-white core fragments burst in every direction, while countless streams of energy fluid gushed wildly from the fractures, evaporating into a blinding mist of light in the void.

The Sixth Heaven's body rapidly