The Seventh Step, Ancient Illuminating

The Gray Gold Giant Sword fell.

There was no earth-shattering boom, only a muffled crushing sound that made it hard to breathe.

The Sixth Step laws that had made Luo Yan seem invincible moments ago were as fragile as cheap glass before the Gray Gold Giant Sword, which carried the will of countless living beings.

Crack.

Crack, crack!

One ashen Law Chain after another snapped.

Strands of ash-gray, higher-dimensional energy were ground to dust.

The power that had wrapped around Luo Yan and made him believe he had entered the realm of deities shattered inch by inch before the sword of judgment. It did not last a single breath.

Luo Yan was crushed to his knees in the Void, his bones cracking throughout his body.

The ash-gray blood vessels on the Withered Heart before him burst one after another, spraying ashen blood everywhere.

"Impossible..."

"This is impossible!"

Luo Yan stared at the Gray Gold Giant Sword above him, his eyes nearly bulging from their sockets.

He had only just touched the threshold of the Sixth Step. Before he could throw his weight around in Hongmeng, a Giant Sword that had appeared from nowhere had pinned him down and ground him into the dirt.

This was nothing like the Sixth Step he had imagined.

Wasn't the Sixth Step supposed to stand above everything?

Wasn't the Sixth Step supposed to rewrite the fates of all living beings with a single thought?

Wasn't someone at the Sixth Step supposed to be so terrifying that lesser beings dared not even look at him?

Why had he been smashed like this the moment he ascended?

Huang Yan, the Big Black Fish, watched with shining eyes, his tail slapping noisily.

"Nice hit, Boss!"

"That's how you deal with a bargain-bin Sixth Step!"

"He tried to steal