The instant dark red light exploded, the entire ruins of the Cycle World seemed to freeze.
It was destruction that outstripped sound and light. Four layers of Formation Runes collapsed at once, and the Life Origins the four Chaos Overlord Lizards had tempered over endless ages became pure destructive force in the same instant.
This explosion was unlike any before it.
The dark red light no longer spread outward in a sphere. Instead, it became countless spiraling trails of concentrated power, as though billions of invisible blades had been unleashed at once.
The red light began spinning and cutting wildly from Fang Chen's chest, like a flower of death blooming in the depths of the Underworld. Every petal was a torrent of destruction powerful enough to tear apart Laws.
The instant those spiraling blades touched Fang Chen, his body was like grain thrown into a millstone, disintegrating rapidly from the chest outward.
His skin was stripped away first, then his flesh, then his meridians.
His newly regenerated, jade-white body was like paper before the dark red spiraling blades. It shattered inch by inch, then the surging flood of energy ground it into even finer particles.
Next came his bones. The dark gold skeleton, newly tempered and strengthened by two rebirths, let out a groan under the strain.
Its dense golden patterns threw off blinding sparks where they met the dark red blades, like flecks of refined iron flying beneath a hammer. Yet even they could not withstand the destructive impact of four lives unleashed at once.
Cracks spread from his breastbone, racing across his entire skeleton like a spiderweb. An instant later, it shattered with a crash.
Last came his Soul Origin.
The Sky-Shrouding Umbrella had opened to its fullest the moment the explosion began. Before the dark red blades,