Space

Several Heavenly Demons keenly sensed the changes in the space around them. A foreboding rose in every heart, and their expressions shifted.

"Shi Lan" raised both hands and lightly slapped her right palm against her left.

"Clap—"

The crisp sound rang out. It was nothing remarkable amid the surrounding din, but to the Heavenly Demons, it landed like a clap of thunder!

The spatial storm within a thousand li erupted in an instant!

"Pfft—"

After a muffled thud, a gigantic black hole a thousand li across appeared in the void. Countless fragments of space turned into blades, rampaging within the black hole. The Heavenly Demons and the remaining low-level demon beasts inside vanished without a trace, swallowed by the black hole.

Several thousand li away, Jiyun's face was dark as water. Because of the Shattered Space Jade, his divine sense couldn't penetrate the battlefield at all. But with Shi Lan's strength of merely the Earthly Baleful Realm, there was no way she could have survived a spatial rift of that magnitude.

"Amitabha..."

Jingkong sighed softly. The skin across his body gradually returned to normal, and his frame slowly shrank back to its usual size.

A monk's robe appeared in Jingkong's hands. He swiftly put it on, then sat cross-legged on the ground, murmuring a prayer as Buddhist light swirled around him. A brief scripture for the dead drifted from his lips.

Half a quarter of an hour later, the shattered space returned to stillness. The mountains and valleys within a thousand li had been completely swallowed, leaving behind a vast crater, as if a falling star from beyond the heavens had struck the earth.

Clinging to a glimmer of hope, Jiyun searched the battlefield, but found nothing—as expected.

"It's a pity. Our human race has lost another prodigy." Jiyun