"Arrogant!"
Yan Tianji roared. The Great Sun True Qi around him surged severalfold, its golden light turning his aged face red with fury.
"Since you refuse to see reason, don't blame us for showing no mercy. We'll reduce you and Crouching Dragon City to ashes!"
Before his words had faded, his raised right hand came crashing down!
"Nine Suns Across the Sky—burn heaven and earth to dust!"
The eight Martial Emperors answered in unison, and nine streams of golden light, each as brilliant as the sun, merged in an instant.
High above, the nine blazing suns shone brighter still. Their scorching light became countless blades of fire that swept across the world. All the air over the Crouching Dragon Mountain burned away, leaving a pitch-black void.
Magma churned and boiled below. Rock melted, and trees and grass turned to ash in an instant. A heat wave bearing the might to end the world bore down on Li Yun atop the mountain.
That power had long surpassed the limits of an ordinary Martial Emperor. It was as though an ancient miracle had descended, with every ray of light capable of burning mountains and boiling seas.
Even thousands of miles away, the people and Martial Artists of Crouching Dragon City felt their souls begin to burn. Had Li Yun's Heaven's Will Barrier not shielded them, not a bone would have remained.
Li Yun stood on the summit, his dark hair whipping wildly in the gale. The heat had already evaporated the cold sweat from his brow, and his scorched, torn blue robes exposed his taut, upright frame.
He did not retreat an inch. The Heaven-Slaying Treasure Blade hummed ceaselessly in his hand. Wrapped around its edge was his supreme Heaven's Will, a power above World Will. Restrained yet keen, it stood in