A punch.
The wind howled, lightning flowed.
The white-violet lightning bursting from the center of his fist was like a sun exploding without warning, carrying boundless spiritual essence as it crashed violently into the entire spiritual array space.
"Ultimate Rending Lightning Fist!"
Throne-level, lightning attribute.
There were no mystical illusions whatsoever. Under the banner of absolute power, this punch struck the space before him with devastating force.
"Rumble—"
A deafening explosion erupted, enough to burst one's eardrums.
Just as expected.
After that punch, ripples spread inch by inch through the space before him, before it withered away piece by piece.
The eight gates in the distance, the severed limbs and wreckage before them, even the surrounding primeval forest... all of it shattered like foam beneath a single Ultimate Rending Lightning Fist.
"Sure enough, it was all an illusion..."
Jiang Tai calmly watched everything before him, utterly composed inside.
Jiang Yu had told him that every illusion seen within a spiritual array was false.
If they reached the final juncture and truly had no other recourse—
then breaking the array through brute force was always a broad road to victory.
The instant he threw that punch, countless possibilities had flashed through Jiang Tai's mind.
This spiritual array might have been activated by someone else, or it might have been triggered by the two of them...
But regardless, if they truly wasted too much time inside the spiritual array, the mission would be no different from a failure.
He could not wait any longer!
Even if, after that punch, he had to face the scrutiny of the entire Xu Family party.
Jiang Tai was still confident that, even if the mission failed, he could drift away unscathed.
Yet the turn of events came with such abruptness.
Just as the space shattered and