The resplendent flame giant stood with its feet on the earth and its head beneath the firmament, its stature identical to that of the Great Heavenly King Dharma Body.
The two giants faced each other above the stone platform, like two towering peaks locked in confrontation.
Then the flame giant thrust out its fiery palm.
The multicolored flame giant's enormous palm likewise blotted out the sky. Multicolored flames churned wildly across it, like a burning ocean compressed into the shape of a hand.
Wherever the force of its palm swept past, space warped and twisted from the heat. Even the spatial rifts scattered through the air evaporated into nothingness beneath the flames' scorching temperature.
The fiery palm crashed head-on into the Great Heavenly King Dharma Body's domineering palm.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
The instant the two palms collided, heaven and earth seemed to shatter.
Deafening thunder roared in every direction, a hundred times fiercer than any previous clash, as though a star had exploded between their palms.
The center of the collision caved in instantly. Space seemed to have been crushed by an invisible hand, and countless black spatial rifts spread outward from the point of impact. The spatial turbulence spilling from those rifts shot in every direction like countless sharp blades.
The surrounding glaciers erupted under the shock, sending countless pillars of ice soaring into the sky. Each was as thick as a palace column and over a hundred zhang tall, as though an ice-sealed forest had sprung from beneath the ground in an instant.
A savage shockwave swept outward, stripping a layer from the ice field around the stone platform and blowing shattered ice and accumulated snow several li away.
In the distance, the pupils of the many powerful cultivators watching the battle contracted.
To their horror, they saw