That figure stepped across the scorched earth.
Tap, tap, tap.
With each step he took, the white flames parted to either side like obedient slaves.
Squelch.
Wriggling, indescribable dark-red tendrils sprouted from the charred, cracked earth.
"Brother..."
Chen Yu murmured in a daze. That was what her brother had looked like originally.
But now.
It was as if something had left her forever.
Those eyes still gazed upon the Human World.
But they had lost all the light they once held.
They were two vortices of chaos, roiling with countless tiny eyeballs.
Every eyeball reflected the despairing people of the three prefectures of the Human World, and the indifference of those giant-eyed planets in the sky.
Oppression.
An oppression so powerful it defied all bounds.
Though people could not truly see him, they could feel his arrival.
Suffocation.
The entire Human World seemed to have stiffened.
Streaks of light suddenly shot forth.
Chen Yu, Lu Jianxia, Ke Qingxuan, Shen Yiwei, and the others.
A tremendous fear weighed down their minds, but it could not stop them from moving.
They refused to believe it.
That was clearly the Great Xia Heavenly Divine General, the one who could lead them out of the Five Clans Competition.
Even if Mother God was powerful, even if Malice was boundless.
The Heavenly Divine General was a God, too—the only supreme being to emerge from the Human Race in ten thousand years.
Across the land.
Countless living beings stared with ashen faces.
They had seen Chen Yan forge a new path and establish it.
They had seen Chen Yan debate the Dao with Lord Chen, seen him plan for all under heaven alone and suppress every supreme powerhouse in the Human World.
They had all believed Chen Yan was invincible beneath the heavens.
But reality had