The stars shone.
An immense radiance blazed from the very center of the firmament. Even warriors found it difficult to look directly at the sky; they could only vaguely glimpse, from the corners of their eyes, a wheel of azure-gold light shining brilliantly at the peak of the boundless heavens.
The entirety of Shenjing had originally been shrouded beneath the shadows of ruins and city fragments floating in the sky. Yet in that instant, the intense light birthed by an inconceivable concentration of Spirit Fiend illuminated, pierced through, and even set ablaze all of Heaven and Earth.
All colors faded. Vaporized ash rose from the surfaces of the buildings above, while the jade stones on the ground melted into white-gold lava. Wherever the divine light passed, all things were ionized, vaporized, and turned to nothingness, leaving behind only a trail of vacuum.
And its target was precisely the God-Slaying Platform!
"Traitor! You actually dared to use such a Supernatural Ability in Shenjing?!"
"Billions of common folk—do you truly feel no pity at all?!"
As An Jing's countdown continued, many officials atop the God-Slaying Platform glared with eyes wide open. The moves made earlier by the heads of the four great families had bought them some time. At the end of the day, those who truly controlled Shenjing's great array formation were still them—and every one of them was an outstanding figure of the age.
After rapidly adapting to Tianyuan Realm's Spirit Net techniques of attack and defense, the officials, who had nearly had their Celestial Official Dharma Registers sealed and been reduced to mortals, were both shocked and furious. They had never imagined that An Jing, who had always seemed "peaceful and possessed of a grandmaster's bearing," could be so wildly arrogant and deranged. At the slightest disagreement, he went