Shen Ming suddenly exerted force with both palms, all ten fingers tightening at once.
The Gray Light Sphere let out an overloaded creak in his palms, like prey constricted by a giant python, its bones breaking and flesh tearing.
The Reincarnation Runes on the sphere's surface went dark in swathes. Its gray-black radiance faded from bright to dim, from dim to faint, and from faint to nearly invisible.
Inside the light sphere, the palace walls began to crack. Fissures spread from the ground to the walls, from the walls to the dome, from the dome to the pillars.
The stone slabs carved with Reincarnation Runes shattered under the pressure. Their fragments drifted through the void, only to be ground into dust by the crushing force that followed.
Hui Mei stood at the highest point of the palace, blood seeping from all seven orifices.
The Six Paths of Reincarnation spun madly above his head, yet its rotation grew slower and slower, like a machine that had lost its power and could only barely sustain its final operation through inertia.
It was not that the Six Paths of Reincarnation were weak. It was that Hui Mei's cultivation and strength were simply too far beneath Shen Ming's at this moment.
Blood spilled from the corner of his mouth, his eyes were shot through with blood, and his voice was so hoarse it was nearly inaudible.
"Big Brother... this freak is absurdly strong. Rather than wait to die, we might as well go out and fight him!"
Chu Tian's voice sounded by his ear, calm and steady.
"You focus on driving the secret realm away. Leave the rest to me."
"I'm fucking going all out!" Hui Mei roared, spraying mouthful after mouthful of blood essence into the Six Paths of Reincarnation.
The extinguished Reincarnation