Countless particles of magical energy seeped out from the void, condensing into an elemental tide even denser than the thick fog over the sea.
Innumerable specks of starlight floated around him, spinning, flickering in and out.
It was as though the entire Milky Way had been forcibly dragged down from the depths of the cosmos and spread into a magnificent wheel of light spanning sea and sky.
The Ancient Crow King's hundred-meter-wide dark green main eye suddenly contracted.
Its ancient instincts, honed through who knew how many eras, screamed madly as it violently flung hundreds of tentacles.
Each one was as thick as an ancient tree and several thousand meters long. The hooked keratinous teeth lining its suckers gleamed with an icy chill beneath the starlight.
All of those tentacles lashed toward Jiang Che at once.
The air exploded in their wake with a continuous, deep roar, while wind pressure tore trenches dozens of meters deep across the sea's surface.
A streak of golden light silently rippled through the depths of Jiang Che's abyss-black eyes as he shouted in a low voice:
"Annihilate!"
In an instant, heaven and earth shook!
A pillar of darkness, black beyond black and so vast that no words could adequately describe it, crashed down from somewhere even higher than the heavens.
It did not strike down from the clouds! It did not fall from the stars!
It descended directly from some origin dimension more distant than the sky and deeper than the stars!
The pillar's diameter could not be measured.
Its edges had already surpassed the limit of what the naked eye could perceive.
Wherever it passed, space shattered into countless fine, silvery-white spiderweb cracks.
The seawater was torn apart and vaporized before it could rush back in.
Then, under even greater heat, it transitioned