"Rumble—!!!"
A loud noise that tore through heaven and earth, shaking the entire cosmos, erupted with brutal force!
It was as though the entire Forbidden Sea had been pierced through by that terrifying thunderous roar!
Yet—
That seemingly supple, yet truly indestructible golden Light Screen merely rippled violently.
Like a tranquil lake struck by a colossal boulder weighing ten thousand jun, layer upon layer of incomparably violent golden ripples spread across its surface!
The crimson blood seal containing the endless power of blood-baleful laws, unleashed by the Purgatory Clan Progenitor, was actually held fast by that seemingly swaying Light Screen. No matter how it roared and struggled...
It could not advance even half an inch!
Not only that, the destructive energy shockwave capable of annihilating stars and tearing apart space—
Was tightly bound outside the Light Screen by its strange power!
Like a world-ending flood blocked by an invisible dam, the violent energy could only churn madly across the Light Screen's surface, howling and raging, unable to find any outlet to vent itself. It was stifled to the extreme!
"What?!!!"
The Purgatory Clan Progenitor, standing proudly in the air as though he held the lives and deaths of all beings in his grasp, underwent a drastic change in his eternally cold expression!
Those crimson eyes, capable of freezing time and space and making all things bow their heads, abruptly lifted. Filled with incredulous horror, his gaze locked firmly onto the source from which that pillar of light descended—
The unfathomable depths of the endless sky, as though they contained boundless heavenly might!
At that instant, he seemed to have seen through some terrifying truth concealed by this world, one so dreadful it made the hair stand on end!
An indescribable dread, born from the depths of instinct, shot out from