The Earth Luminary Ancestral Spirit, Kunyu Spirit-Deer, had been destroyed.
This Giant Spirit, born in the Primordial Wilderness, had fought a thrilling, no-holds-barred death match before An Jing personally elbowed it to death, granting its wish and allowing it to welcome true annihilation.
With its demise, the entire Wasteland Secret Realm—which had been its body and divine domain—lost its final support.
Rumble—
The heavens crumbled, and the earth sank.
Under the astonished gazes of countless cultivators outside, a stretch of ordinary-looking primeval forest within the Zhaolin Realm suddenly twisted and cracked like a shattered mirror, emitting a grating sound.
Then, a colossal void appeared above the forest, steadily shrinking.
But that was not the end. When the void collapsed to a single point, an unimaginable force of expansion burst forth from within!
It was like an endless rain of yellow sand.
The secret realm's desert was like an infinitely vast data file suddenly uncompressed. Centered on that forest, it expanded and spread outward at a wild pace!
The original trees were pushed apart. New land emerged from the newborn space-time, and the lush green landscape was rapidly divided and swept away, until all that remained was a distant view across an endless expanse of ocher and sandy brown.
As the land expanded, mountain ranges stretched into plains, while rivers dried up and ran dry.
But new mountains, hills, and Earth Veins appeared in the desert, along with new rivers, lakes, and oases, all as space-time was uncompressed.
In just a few breaths, a vast, boundless golden Gobi, steeped in an ancient, desolate atmosphere, appeared out of thin air, completely replacing—or rather, uncompressing into—the space once occupied by the forest.
The entire Zhaolin Realm had expanded out of nowhere.
This astonishing sight, as though heaven and earth had been turned upside