As far as the eye could see, there was only endless war.
Firelight stretched for thousands of miles across the earth, while roars and shrill cries rang without cease.
Under the Abyss's massive offensive, it seemed as though even day had become night, so dark one could not see a hand before one's face. Only the neon glow of the Great Arcanum flickered endlessly through the darkness, breaking and reconnecting, constantly adjusting as it enveloped everything.
At the very front of the battle line, within that darkest place where countless mists danced, a violent presence suddenly stirred.
Yet even more terrifying was that strange iron rod rising from the ground and extending without end—Divine Miracle Inscriptions coiled around it, illuminating the ancient seal script upon the Sea-Calming Divine Needle and granting it terrifying destructive power capable of shattering anything.
When the Sea-Calming Divine Needle swept across, the darkness was crushed with unstoppable force. All the mist scattered in terror, and a thunderous roar rose alongside the spreading shadows of countless rods!
At the center of the innumerable rod shadows, the massive ruler roared and tried to defend itself, but the sound of bones breaking rang out continuously amid the iron rod's shrill howl.
Until, at last, the rod shadows across the sky abruptly converged, forming a dazzling golden radiance that seemed poised to smash apart the heavens.
"Die for me!!!"
The miracle of the Eight Trigrams of the Innate revolved upon the Sea-Calming Divine Needle, briefly manifesting and igniting primordial fire as the Great Sage Equal to Heaven roared and descended from the sky!
—Smash!
Boom!!!!
A massive mushroom cloud spread upward into the heavens amid the hurricane.
The heavily wounded ruler was reduced to nothing, not even bones remaining!
Under the Sea-Calming Divine Needle's savage devastation, even the calamity