The crack was dark gold, its edges jagged like a wound torn open by claws.
Beyond it lay no empty void, but a churning gray-white expanse that radiated an aura terrifying enough to make the soul tremble.
It was a passage for the Heavenly Slaves.
The World Will could not send enough power through the opening created by Heavenly Punishment to kill the Nether Prison Immortal King outright. But it could open a passage and let the Heavenly Slaves in.
The Heavenly Slaves were the World Will's most loyal executioners, the Land of Ending's most terrifying predators. They had no sentience, only an instinct to destroy. They were the World Will's tools for purging its enemies, the cultivators' worst nightmare during the Heaven-Extermination War.
A twisted figure slowly emerged from the crack.
The Heavenly Slave was shaped like a giant, a hundred zhang tall and covered in dark-gray scale armor. Gray-white Law Runes coursed across its scales.
Its head resembled a lizard's. It had no eyes, only a massive Mouthpart that took up half its head. Fine, sharp teeth lined its jaws, each one like black crystal, gleaming with a chill that made the heart seize.
Its limbs were thick and powerful, its claws curved and sharp as hooks. Its tail was a dark-gray whip that split into three at the tip. With the slightest sway, it scored fine cracks through the void.
A one-turn Immortal Emperor.
Its aura had unmistakably reached the level of a one-turn Immortal Emperor.
Aboard the warship, the cheering stopped dead.
The cultivators stared wide-eyed at the towering figure emerging from the crack, at the gray-white runes coursing over its body. Its terrifying pressure made their souls tremble.
"Is that a Heavenly Slave?"
"That pressure... It's even stronger than the Nether Prison Immortal King's!"
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