A golden vortex tens of thousands of miles across twisted in the sky, golden radiance filling the heavens. A colossal dragon head thrust out from the vortex and devoured the evil energy filling the sky.
The evil energy surged like a tide, like a tornado rolling backward into the golden dragon's mouth, where it vanished.
That dragon's mouth was a bottomless pit. No matter how much evil energy lay below, it simply opened wide and swallowed it, as though nothing could ever fill it.
It was a shocking sight.
The vortex spanning ten thousand miles hung in the sky like a blazing sun, while a dragon head nine thousand miles across devoured the evil energy. Countless people throughout the world saw it and trembled. Even their thoughts seemed to freeze, leaving them staring blankly, their minds a complete void.
The people inside the four fortified cities saw it too. Though shocked, they smiled. They felt that in the end, His Majesty had outmaneuvered his opponent. It was only evil energy, after all—it had been swallowed by the World-Suppressing Dragon Soul. Surely, before long, every last trace of it would be devoured, and the world would return to clarity.
Farther away, beyond the forbidden zone, countless living beings across the boundless lands looked up at the sky, dumbstruck.
Many people who had seen the Giant Sword rise and hurried toward this place stopped in their tracks when they witnessed the scene. What was happening over there? It looked dangerous.
Should they keep going?
At the heart of the forbidden zone, west of the Giant Sword, Bai Yang remained seated amid the boundless evil energy. Though the evil energy around him surged skyward like a tide and poured into the dragon's mouth, he was protected by the Eighth-grade Merit Golden Lotus and