This threat, steeped in annihilation...
was like icy steel needles stabbing toward Island-Moving Venerable within the river of clear radiance.
Yet...
deep within the river winding through the sky, Island-Moving Venerable remained seated cross-legged, utterly motionless. He did not even lift an eyelid.
His response to the Purgatory Clan's threat...
was the sudden acceleration of his hand seals to their absolute limit, until they nearly became a blurred halo of light!
The river of clear radiance erupted with an unprecedented brilliance, and the density of lightning within the golden cage instantly doubled!
The thunderclaps were deafening, as though heaven and earth themselves were roaring in fury!
"You don't know the meaning of death!"
Within the blood-colored blazing sun, the High Priest, who had remained silent all this time, finally spoke in a voice cold to the bone, laden with the fury of being utterly disregarded.
"Since they insist on courting death... then..."
"Crush them! Attack!!!"
"As commanded!!"
"Kill!!!"
The savage killing intent of dozens of peak experts converged into a roar that shattered the void!
The next moment, that blood-colored blazing sun, radiating world-ending might, tore violently through the space ahead with a terrifying momentum that sought to crush all things. Like a ferocious ancient star falling from the heavens, it hurtled with heaven-destroying, earth-shattering force toward the core hub of the golden cage array—
the [Tianyuan Position], where clear radiance and golden light flowed—charging forward with unmatched fury...
CRASHING INTO IT!!!
Within the cage surging with golden radiance...
the Purgatory Clan Progenitor's eyes, as though forged from molten stars, flickered with irrepressible excitement.
His immense body, formed of pure energy and ancient will, trembled slightly beneath the illumination of the golden lightning—not from pain, but from anticipation at his imminent escape.
"Once I leave this cage..."
the Progenitor's low