The rift above Lu Yuan's head let out a thunderous roar, like silk being torn apart. A gash split open at once.
For the first time in the truest sense, the waters of the Sea of Knowledge flooded into the real world.
Words filled the sky, bursting through their banks in a colored deluge that bore down upon the Sea of Blood.
The confrontation between Authorities ended completely at that moment. Once the Sea of Knowledge descended, it was simply beyond what they could bear.
Yet when the seawater formed of words fell upon the Flesh, it did not immediately burn away.
It was as though it had been soaked into another layer of the world.
The dark-red waves of flesh gradually turned transparent amid the colored radiance, then slowly dissolved and vanished.
Those toppled Bronze Pillars were submerged by the seawater. Their enormous bodies, together with their peeling Inscriptions, slowly sank into the colored depths without raising even a splash.
The edge of the Inner City began to peel away continuously. As the seawater poured in, space curled upward inch by inch before fading away like a painting dissolving in water.
The first to suffer were the two figures suspended in the void.
The phantom of the City of Chains was drenched head-on by the colored torrent.
Its pitch-black walls faded inch by inch beneath the seawater, while the burning green eyes upon them went out one after another.
The chains wrapped around the Crown shook violently beneath the torrent, yet never broke.
The Person on the Wall fared even worse.
He had no body. His spirit body was effectively immersed directly in the descending sea.
That airtight cocoon was soaked through layer by layer by the words, and vast swathes of Gray Mist collapsed and scattered.
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