A hundred-zhang-tall Star Blue phantom stood silently above Heaven Dou City.
The phantom was far too enormous—so enormous that the ruins of the grand imperial city seemed like a miniature sand-table model beneath it.
It wore dazzling battle armor woven from countless galaxies, and on every plate of that armor flowed an ancient, undying radiance.
Upon its head rested a crown condensed purely from starlight. It was unquestionable cosmic supremacy, a terrifying majesty that made even the laws of the Douluo Plane tremble.
The Shadow Canopy that had originally shrouded Heaven Dou City, drawn down by Qian Chongjue's sacrifice of a hundred thousand living souls, now looked like a fragile, tattered cloth that had been forcibly stretched open.
"Buzz—"
An extremely muffled wail, as though heaven and earth themselves were groaning in pain, came from the clouds high above.
The once-unrivaled pitch-black mist, the moment it touched the Star Flame radiating from the Star Blue phantom, was like snow meeting scalding magma, letting out a piercing hiss.
Those Shadow Elements formed from ultimate evil and resentment had no chance to escape at all. In an instant, they were completely burned into nothingness by the tyrannical starlight.
Crack.
The first fissure appeared on the black dome.
Then came the second, and the third. Crisp cracking sounds rang beside every survivor's ears like the Death God's countdown. The cracks spread outward at a mad speed, like a gigantic golden spiderweb, crawling across the entire canopy in an instant.
Boom!
That indestructible demigod-tier barrier, which had once driven countless Heaven Dou Soul Masters into despair, shattered inch by inch like glass struck by a giant hammer!
The black fragments drifting down from the sky had not yet touched the ground before they were thoroughly purified by the omnipresent starlight.
Long-lost sunlight followed the