The Tower's Destruction

Let time slip back a little.

To the moment when Gu Qingshan was summoned by Wang Cheng while hiding among the wreckage of a spaceship.

Elsewhere.

Beyond the Contention Zone.

The High Tower World.

An unprecedentedly brutal war was drawing to a close.

Boom—

In the distance, the towering structure that reached from heaven to earth snapped in two with a thunderous crash.

The Knowledge High Tower of the Gods had been destroyed!

A sharp female voice rang across the entire world: "Beings created by the gods, you know nothing of despair."

A crazed male voice followed: "Your only worth lies in the nourishment contained within your souls!"

An ear-splitting aria erupted from both voices at once: "Souls! Offer me your souls, ah----------"

Amid the piercing shrieks, the monster stood at the center of the battlefield, mouth wide open.

The people fighting fell one after another.

Their souls rose from their bodies and were sucked into the monster's mouth.

Across the battlefield, countless souls flew toward the monster.

Only the people from the Theology Academy were immune to this soul-sucking. Everyone else had fallen into an unprecedentedly terrifying predicament.

The powerhouses who ruled the Nine Hundred Million Layer World were helpless.

They abandoned their opponents from the Theology Academy and unleashed their strongest attacks, striking the monster with all their might.

But their attacks had no effect at all.

The monster stood there unharmed, continuing to suck in souls.

Even many Overlord-level powerhouses couldn't resist the pull. The souls of quite a few people tore free from their bodies and flew straight into the monster's mouth.

And those with the strength to resist were still trapped in an unprecedentedly desperate situation.

With every passing second, their bodies were ravaged by a fierce attack.

In just a few breaths, their bodies