Wang Qi's avatar leisurely rode a fleeing light upward from beneath the ground of Planet Laude.
Although an avatar of this level could be fashioned with a casual pinch, it was still best to save where he could.
At the same time, the many "black umbrellas" in space began to turn. A beam of True Fire that had originally been aimed at the Beast Mechanism cluster scattered apart. Countless streaks of flame traced illusory yet dazzling fans across the cosmos before finally falling upon Planet Laude.
Across the land, the remaining tundra briefly burned before turning to charcoal. The scant thin gas at ground level, not even enough to be called an "atmosphere," finally exhausted its last oxygen atoms. The remaining primitive plants died completely as well.
Incidentally, the Immortal Alliance's previous specimen collection had already reduced this planet's tundra by one-third. Any more would have been difficult to carry away.
These primitive plant cells would not easily lose vitality even after dehydration. If Alu'er truly still possessed a trace of immortal power, there might yet be a sliver of possibility for rebirth someday.
Under the extreme heat, vast stretches of ground turned into lava.
Even as the ground was scorched, many pillars of True Fire converged in one direction.
That was the "Sky Pit" where a giant meteorite had once smashed straight into the depths of the earth. Later, to defend against the Yellow Crystal Devils, Laude cultivators had used a fossil-to-mud spell to seal the uppermost layer. But beneath the cutting heat of True Fire, that "ceiling" was instantly sliced to pieces.
Countless stones fell toward the planet's core.
Faster than them, however, were the pillars of True Fire traveling at the speed of light.
The invisible True Sun Fire touched the layer of water film over the