Beneath a blood-red sky.
A giant stood amid an endless sea of corpses.
It suddenly sensed something, dropped into a fighting stance, and growled in a low voice:
"With all the Corrupted Power of this world, I will shatter you—"
The world shuddered violently. An invisible force came from every direction, gathering around the giant's fist.
Layer upon layer of strange phenomena burst forth around its fist, revealing an extraordinary killing intent.
Boom—boom—boom—
The giant strode forward, then broke into a run across the land.
Its speed steadily increased until it leaped high into the air and swung with all its might at a spot in the void.
At that very moment, a figure suddenly appeared there.
Gu Qingshan!
He had almost no time to react. He met the giant's fist head-on and was sent flying, his armor shattered all over.
"Ptooey, Nine Faces—"
Gu Qingshan muttered bitterly, his entire body transforming into Sword Aura.
The Sword Aura flickered unsteadily, cleaving from the sky to the ground in a long, receding streak of white.
The giant let out an unwilling roar.
The sky, the giant, the land—everything in the world was completely severed by that single strike.
The shattered world receded at once.
The next instant.
The scenery around him changed. From an endless Sea Abyss surged a giant serpent, its entire body wreathed in Green Mist.
It seemed to have been lying in wait. The instant the Sword Aura appeared, it lunged and snapped its jaws at it.
The Sword Aura rang out with an explosion and dodged the serpent's attack.
The entire world suddenly vanished.
In a direction perpendicular to the Sword Aura, a stretch of land abruptly appeared. Countless swarms of insects buzzed in unison, having just released their final Incantation Note.
Boom—
An indescribable thing hurtled