"No... no!
Impossible!!!
How could it trigger the Spirit Vein into a rampage?!!"
Zhao Old Devil's pupils shrank to true pinpoints, and boundless terror and despair utterly crushed that last sliver of luck he had clung to.
The next moment, Heaven and earth fell silent!
RUMBLE—!!!
An even more immense, even more terrifying destructive energy—as though it arose from the primal will of this world itself—was completely detonated!
A radiance ten times more brilliant and a hundred times more vast than the Nascent Soul's self-destruction before, erupted with savage force like the first ray of light at the birth of the universe, yet bearing the intent of Extinction that would end all things!
In an instant, the sky, the earth, the distant cloud layer, the nearby dust...
Everything within sight was dyed a deathly white, pure to the utmost extreme and terrifying to the utmost extreme!
Sound itself seemed swallowed by that boundless white radiance, while all color was utterly erased from the world.
The very concepts of time and space blurred here, leaving only the suffocating stillness before destruction descended, and the endless, immeasurable white radiance filling every inch of space, symbolizing utter nothingness!
A moment later...
Only then did the light, enough to blind one's eyes, gradually fade away.
What came into view was a scene like the end of the world.
The void was covered in crisscrossing, pitch-black and savage spatial rifts, like a gigantic torn net shrouding the heavens.
Within a radius of tens of thousands of li, every existence above the ground had been flattened, reduced to a silent wasteland of scorched earth.
Where that thousand-zhang Spirit Peak had once stood...
there remained only a terrifying giant crater, bottomless and smooth-edged!
Just then, the fragile space around it, not yet fully healed, could no longer