Countless spells collided in midair across vast distances.
A battlefield whose radius could be measured in light-years. Limited by the escape speeds of both sides, the following Immortal Exterminators advanced one after another at sublight speeds, until the entire battlefield contracted or they eliminated their targets.
Yet the foremost line of the fiercest fighting was a ring above the ecliptic plane, with a radius of seventy astronomical units.
Like the blade of a juicer, a ring that ground countless bodies and metals to pulp.
The immense insect swarm charged forward. Once spread out, this colossal swarm occupied a battlefield three light-seconds across. Even an annihilating strike at light speed would require more than three seconds to wipe it out completely.
The swarm seemed to have passed through a dense cloud of cosmic dust.
Then black spots began to grow across the bodies of the insects at the very front.
A bizarre plague emerged within them.
This was truly inconceivable. The nonspecific immune functions of immortals were already powerful beyond measure, and these were Immortal Exterminators—special immortals who cultivated formidable techniques, whose very essence of life differed from ordinary immortals.
What sort of plague curse could infect an Immortal Exterminator insect swarm?
Yet black necrotic spots surged through the swarm like a tidal wave. Countless insects began to lose their aim and dart wildly through the horde. With the slightest brush against uninfected individuals, they caused black spots to appear upon them as well.
Like lesions stained by dye.
The black spots continued to spread until they completely enveloped the insects.
Then the insects dispersed into a cloud of dust as though they had weathered into sand.
It was the Beast Mechanism.
The Hualing Patriarch could devise corresponding plague techniques for different living creatures. Senior Sister Mi's Black Mi was simply