Su Fan had barely formed the thought when the Earth Fiend Geng Metal Heavenly Thunder Evil-Breaking Hammer instantly materialized in his palm like a streak of flowing light.
Using his right foot as the pivot, he planted himself firmly. The veins on both arms bulged as he swung the hammer, over a hundred zhang long, through a full arc. Amid roaring wind, it smashed toward the gray-black halo atop Giant Peak with the force of a thousand jun.
Wrapped in ear-piercing thunder and flashing lightning, the Earth Fiend Geng Metal Heavenly Thunder Evil-Breaking Hammer radiated a terrifying aura capable of destroying heaven and earth. Wherever it passed, the dense Evil Spirit Qi in the air retreated in disarray like snow meeting blazing fire.
Just as the hammer was about to strike the gray-black halo atop Giant Peak, an aura filled with endless decay and corruption suddenly surged out of the halo without warning.
Immediately afterward, the terrifying existence within the gray-black halo, a being that made one's heart tremble, slowly opened its eyes.
In that instant, the entire dim, oppressive world seemed to have been pressed into pause, freezing completely in place.
An indescribable aura of great terror and ill omen poured down like a flood that overturned the heavens, instantly raising waves of fear thousands of zhang high in Su Fan's heart.
At this life-or-death moment, a terrifying gaze, icy cold and carrying boundless pressure, pierced through the void and locked precisely onto the incoming Earth Fiend Geng Metal Heavenly Thunder Evil-Breaking Hammer.
The hammer, over a hundred zhang tall, jolted violently. Its previously raging momentum abruptly stopped, as though imprisoned by an invisible force. In the next second, it lost all spirituality and plunged straight from the sky like a kite with its string cut.
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