"Heavenly Punishment! Heavenly Punishment! Heavenly Punishment!!!"
When terrifying power, like a blazing sun—no, truly comparable to a blazing sun—descended from the heavens, countless angels involuntarily cried out in exultation and cheers.
As though a star had fallen, spewing endless streams of flame as it crashed down with a thunderous roar!
It tore apart the iron-like clouds and burned a vast hole through their center, scattering all the chaotic mist lingering above the Scar and sending it boiling outward in every direction.
With unmatched terrifying majesty, it slammed toward the rift.
Yet upon the earth, the rift suddenly opened wide. Like a gaping mouth, it expanded dozens of times in an instant and swallowed the sun of Heavenly Punishment whole.
The blazing sun fell into darkness.
Then, without a sound... it vanished.
As though it had never existed at all.
The Pope expressionlessly clenched his scepter and urged the power within it into eruption, yet no matter how he controlled it, the sun's force could not break free of its restraints.
As though it had fallen into a prison, unable to stretch its limbs.
No, it was more like...
It had been clenched in a hand?
In that instant, amid the rolling darkness, Ji Jue's figure emerged from the steel hell, glancing toward his spread fingers.
A tiny fireball floated between those five fingers.
It erupted and clashed again and again, yet could not escape the control of the Spirit Essence Hand. Between those invisible fingers, vast and magnificent Destruction had already become a toy in his palm.
It could not break free.
"Since you came all this way, why bring gifts?"
Ji Jue raised his head, glanced at Sky City's phantom in the distance, and grinned. "You're awfully welcoming."
As he spoke, his fingers tightened. Streams of scorching crimson flame