The torrent surged backward.
Now, the hero in the flames raised his head and reached toward the black tide blanketing heaven and earth in the distance.
In an instant, the pillar of fire piercing heaven and earth vanished. At his will, the vast flames became a torrential rain, falling down and setting everything ablaze once more.
And in his hand, that utterly ordinary bronze staff began to extend without end.
Toward the rotting ruler, Gaia's shattered body, charging toward him with a roar.
It came crashing down!
Yet as the boundless blaze spread and countless flakes of bronze rust peeled away, characters like a swimming dragon were revealed—Sea-Calming Divine Needle!
A terrifying force capable of pinning down the entire ocean erupted here!
The ruler roared.
Her head and even her shell were utterly smashed apart by that single blow.
For the first time since she had been born from a corpse, she stopped advancing.
Before this godlike might!
"Come on, Auntie!"
The Great Sage, transformed into a giant, gripped her arm tightly. His face within the blazing light seemed to twist into a savage grin. "Don't be in such a hurry. Let's have a nice little chat—"
Then came a headbutt.
Boom!
Endless destructive power burst from the impact, rapidly spreading into the darkness.
Countless monsters could not touch him. They could not even leave a scratch on his armor.
As long as that undefeated hero stood before the Present Realm, he alone kept all of hell outside the gates!
The Pantheon's Divine Miracle Inscription descended once more.
Together with the burning Solar Calendar Stone and the broken wheel of the gods' chariot, it blossomed with Brilliant Light, scattering flames of destruction and counterattack. Under those unceasing counterattacks, the collapsing battle line actually steadied itself once again?
"To think there