At the end of the stone steps, four terrifying auras interwove into a net, forcing the surrounding chaos to retreat to either side.
Lu Zhan stood in the center, his stone body still, his depths unfathomable.
The decrepit Gude stood to his left. To his right stood a cold-faced figure whose killing intent was as sharp as an unsheathed blade; at the rear stood another towering, gray-white Stone King, silent as an eternal mountain of stone.
Below the eighty-first step, Langya's blood had yet to dry.
The faint appreciation for talent on Gude's stone face faded little by little, leaving only chilling malice.
"Your talent is indeed exceptional."
He slowly raised his hand, his voice as cold as ice.
"Since you refuse to join our world, you can perish here."
"With my palm raised, heaven; with my palm overturned, earth!"
His withered stone claw reached into the firmament, and cold, merciless words crashed down.
"Reversing Heaven and Earth, dominion over all!"
With one downward press of his claw, heaven and earth turned upside down.
Yin-yang qi twisted beneath his claw into a slowly revolving Heaven and Earth Millstone. As the millstone descended, swathes of space were ground to dust. The claw's shadow enveloped everything, leaving no chance of survival.
"Heh."
Wang Xuan merely chuckled.
He raised his jade-colored hand. One finger parted the void and pointed forward with a slowness that verged on stillness.
"Annihilating Cosmos!"
As those words left his mouth, the law of destruction erupted.
A world-destroying torrent surged from his fingertip, crashing head-on into the revolving Heaven and Earth Millstone.
Boom!
The thunderous impact drowned out every other sound.
The yin-yang millstone lasted only an instant before the mighty power of "nothingness" pierced its center, pulverizing and erasing it. The inverted heaven and earth collapsed inch by