The great battle erupted!
Miao Yi and Liu Kun, who were below, discovered in shock that the sky had split open!
Jiang Qiao threw a punch.
The thunderous water filling the surroundings suddenly contracted into a single point. Following the trajectory of his fist, it instantly reduced the entire void to ashes, as if it had returned to the moment when heaven and earth were first formed, when primordial chaos expanded!
The Ninth Step of Divinity Staircase!
With such power unleashed at full strength, who beneath the Half-God realm could withstand it?
The Evil Spirit evaded.
It did not take the punch head-on.
It appeared even higher than the highest point, standing at the vantage point beyond the folded space. It coldly watched Jiang Qiao, terrifying killing intent bursting from its pitch-black eyes.
Wisps of deathly aura seeped from the pale mask.
Countless flocculent objects appeared out of thin air and drifted downward, transforming midair into silhouettes of black-brown human skins.
Every silhouette was lifelike.
They looked like real people flattened out.
Each silhouette was also brimming with vitality, as though it were still alive.
The Awakened!
They were all Awakened!
All these human skins flying through the high sky belonged to Awakened, and every one of them had been a peak Awakened!
They had already died.
Yet they seemed to be alive.
The supernatural power within them remained, as did their fighting will and instincts.
They simply lacked self-awareness.
Or perhaps it would be more accurate to say that their self-awareness was the mask high above the heavens. Jiang Qiao saw countless black threads connecting the human-skin silhouettes to the mask, keeping them perpetually under the Evil Spirit's control.
"How many people have you killed?"
"No."
"These human skins look extremely ancient. They can be traced all the way