Gray mist churned.
Pale flames ignited in the Skeleton Agent's hollow eye sockets, and a bone-white finger pointed at Yang Yu's brow.
"Five."
"Four."
The countdown came with pressure ten thousand times normal, making the solidified space around them creak.
Golden formation patterns clamped down on every joint in Yang Yu's body.
The Eight-armed Agent raised four massive axes overhead. Spatial Fragments sifted from their blades.
"Enough of your tricks! You and your worthless universe can be annihilated together!"
Yang Yu did not move.
He kept his left hand in his pocket.
Golden light flowed across the scroll in his right hand.
He waited.
In the deepest reaches of the Abyss Universe, the Chaos Origin Sea erupted with a roar like the creation of heaven and earth.
Xilan's vast silver Weaving Body spread across the entire Abyss.
Her Origin Divine Spark completed its final exchange with the Abyss Core.
The Abyss's sheer scale expanded her limits.
Her Half-Step Transcendence Laws filled the gaps in the Abyss's structure.
A terrifying torrent of power surged back through the one-way passage and poured into Yang Yu without obstruction.
"Three."
The Skeleton Agent had barely spoken the number.
Then his voice stopped dead.
An utterly discordant frequency rippled through the gray mist.
Yang Yu's shoulders, forced down two inches, slowly straightened.
A crack appeared in the taut golden formation patterns.
Then hundreds of cracks spread across the crystalline walls of space.
Bang!
The ten-thousandfold gravity field shattered.
A violent blast of air swept back the other way.
Tulong, the closest to it, was hurled hundreds of meters.
Yang Yu rolled his neck.
His vertebrae cracked in a rapid series of pops.
The aura within him soared at a rate that defied the conservation of energy.
The unstable realm he had sustained through his universe's