All the other Pei Lings' eyes closed against their will.
Those Pei Lings remained silent and continued walking forward.
Step, step, step... Accompanied by faint, monotonous footsteps, they disappeared one by one into the darkness.
Pei Ling and that magnificent, handsome figure remained where they were. Jade Snow Bat, eyes tightly shut, stayed at Pei Ling's side as well.
At that moment, the magnificent figure spoke in an even voice. "I will eliminate him!"
Pei Ling's voice was indifferent. "You can't."
As soon as the words left his mouth, the surrounding darkness retreated like snow beneath the sun. The barren Gobi transformed in an instant, becoming a vast starry sky.
Cold, silvery-white light shone through the void, illuminating Pure White Eyes—icy and distant, like a deity looking down upon the mortal world.
In that instant, Pei Ling's aura became terrifying beyond compare. The power around him was immense: with a lift of his hand, he could overturn rivers and seas, pluck stars and seize the moon; with a single thought, he could turn the blue sea into mulberry fields, reverse the flow of time, and exchange life and death.
Jade Snow Bat, at his side, grew just as terrifying, its power seemingly not belonging to this world at all.
The Demon Emperor's jade-like body began to swell, twist, rot, and decay at an astonishing speed... In the blink of an eye, he was turning into a gigantic lump of flesh.
But the next moment, the wrist Pei Ling held suddenly broke off.
The Demon Emperor instantly retreated a thousand li. His aura changed just as swiftly: his sky-swallowing demonic qi vanished with a thunderous crash, replaced by an ethereal aura even more vast than the demonic qi that had blotted out the sky.
This aura was profoundly mysterious, impossible to