Terrifying golden light poured down, as if it held supreme power, crushing all resistance.
No matter what kind of magical artifact or realm one possessed, everything seemed to fail beneath that golden radiance.
The golden light itself contained a terrifying Martial Dao True Meaning.
Every major sect and faction present had been pressed to the ground, utterly suppressed!
"It's over... It's over..."
"We fell for it... This was a conspiracy from the start."
"The Martial Arts Pavilion... the Martial Dao Golden Ranking... They slaughtered the world!"
Many people cried out in despair and helplessness.
Today, they would all die.
Yu Qianwu knelt on the ground, gazing fervently up at the Martial Dao Heavenly Ladder.
At that moment, a body was taking shape atop the ladder.
Nangong Ao's flesh, the Beast Spirit Prince's bones, Bu Tailing's skin, Cen Mingyi's heart, Xuan Yiming's dantian...
And countless motes of essence refined from the corpses of countless geniuses.
Amid the boundless golden radiance, the body looked both demonic and divine!
"What happened...?"
On the hundredth step, Liao Haohe and the other two had escaped unharmed. Their faces pale with terror, they dropped to their knees.
They didn't dare look up!
At that moment, everyone waited.
All eyes were fixed ahead.
No one knew what would happen next.
"Who stands atop the Martial Dao?"
Suddenly, a voice infused with Martial Dao True Meaning rang out from the heavens above.
Wu Dade and the others were startled. That voice sounded remarkably like Long Zixuan's.
Immediately afterward, the Martial Dao Golden Ranking, which had been floating ethereally at the end of the ladder, began to descend.
A phantom suddenly seemed to emerge from within it.
The phantom headed toward the newly formed body on the hundredth step.
It sank straight into it.
At that instant, the