With her "Law of Heaven and Earth" form unleashed, just Xia Li's enormous head stretched over a kilometer across, rivaling a towering mountain range. Her carapace-covered cheeks were bristling with countless sharp spines, like a forest made of blades.
But to the Overmind now, those were probably no more than tiny hairs on her cheeks.
Her body connected the sky and the earth. Her terrifying face alone could blot out most of the sky.
Her will eclipsed the faint light of the stars. She gazed proudly at Yu Lian as he fell toward her, as if staring at a comet blazing toward her.
"This is the first step. The purification of civilization begins with devouring powerful psychics. Through you, I can analyze the pheromones that simulate psychic power. In the end, you are nothing but carbon-based life. You can be devoured, assimilated, purified. And together with the unified will, you will welcome a new ascension!"
The Overmind opened her cavernous maw, wide enough to devour the stars. Before her carapace-covered lips and teeth seemed to lurk a bottomless black hole, capable of assimilating even the sun. She let the comet that was Yu Lian fall into her enormous mouth.
"Devour!" she sighed, her voice rich and resonant, like a black hole grinding against the stars.
Then came a sharp bang. Countless beams of light spilled from inside the Overmind's skull, streaming through the gaps in the carapace covering her cheeks and coalescing into a searing shock wave.
A powerful implosion erupted inside the Overmind. It was as if a nuclear bomb had been planted in her skull and had finally detonated. The colossal mass, as big as a mountain, was torn apart until its flesh could no longer be distinguished by the naked eye.
All that remained was a small