With disbelief and unwillingness written all over its face, the twelfth-rank transcendent Balrog's body exploded.
Boom!!!
Indescribably destructive energy erupted from within its demonic body. It was the end of chaos, the collapse of rules, an erasure on the level of concepts.
Its demonic body, its divine soul, the rules of chaos and fire it had condensed over countless eras... everything, beneath the "Chaos Annihilation" beams triggered by those four sword lights, crumbled inch by inch like writing erased by a rubber, turning into intangible particles of nothingness that dissipated into the chaotic currents of the Ruins Abyss.
There was no earth-shattering explosion, no struggle or wail.
A transcendent Balrog that had dominated the abyss for countless eras and made the Myriad Heavens Star Sea tremble was, in that fleeting instant, struck down in a single blow by the Sky Ruins Firmament itself.
Silence!
A deathly stillness shrouded the entire Wraith Soul Mountains, even briefly reaching the distant main battlefield.
Every being who sensed this scene, whether from the allied forces or the abyss, whether Mythic or Transcendent, felt monstrous waves rise within their hearts.
One strike, killing a Transcendent instantly.
What kind of terrifying method was this? What kind of inconceivable achievement?
The Heaven-Splitting God King's axe light paused. A sharp gleam burst from the Eternal Ancestor's eyes. The Mother of Myriad Machines' mechanical core nearly crashed from its calculations. The Father of the Sand Sea and the other Chaos Divine Continent Transcendents were shaken to their cores.
On the abyss's side, the remaining eight transcendent Demon Gods revealed disbelief and... a trace of fear in their eyes for the first time.
Yet Song Chi paid no attention to them. Instead, he controlled the Sky Ruins Firmament to rapidly fire beam after beam of tractor light, hauling the powerless,