As though an incomplete tower from above the heavens had descended in incarnation, a pitch-black tower rose from the ground before the Sacrificial Temple's palace halls, seeming to occupy the axis of heaven and earth.
The so-called Celestial Origin!
Upon the black tower, countless wailing faces opened their mouths, roaring, shouting, and lamenting in unison.
Those faces, seemingly familiar or perhaps only just seen, were streaked with bloody tears and twisted with savagery. Their black eyes stared fixedly at every overconfident intruder.
Hoarse voices sounded from every opening and closing mouth, overlapping into a vast echo that shook the heavens.
Praise, song, exaltation...
The eternal Empire, the supreme authority—the tower rose from the earth and pierced the heavens. The Supreme Lord would one day reign over all creation!
Amid the chanting, the eye of flame at the tower's peak slowly opened. It looked down upon all things, surveying everything, revealing the purest malice and an utterly emotionless indifference.
One glance.
Crack!
A vast tide of telekinetic force surged forth in an instant, sweeping across the sky and effortlessly annihilating every gnat that filled the heavens!
Bloody flowers blossomed out of thin air.
Every figure arrogant enough to dare rise into the sky exploded in an instant, falling apart.
Only then did the immense blast wave spread outward!
—Within three hundred li of the imperial presence, any unsummoned ascent or descent shall mean the extermination of three clans!
Rift World suddenly stalled.
All things fell deathly silent.
Everyone raised their heads blankly, feeling a chill rise from the depths of their hearts. Blood spattered across their faces, horrifying them to the bone.
Then, the eye within the flames locked onto the only survivors in the sky... the black warships under Duke An Guo's command!
Between the giant ships, the incarnations woven