Evil Brahma Heaven's immense mountain body cast a reflection that covered the entire Jade Belt Sea.
Not a speck of starlight could be seen through its obstruction.
It possessed both the majesty of a mountain and the mighty power of myth.
Sinful force seemed to be its worshipper, and the Sea of Sin became its support.
Mountain answered sea; heaven and earth joined as one.
At this moment, in this Rootless World, it was both an existence that broke the rules and a master of those rules.
This meant that within the bounds of the Sea of Sin, it was almost invincible.
"Peng Chongjian's" fist was still braced before him, still contending against Si Yu'an's sword. But this time and this world were no longer the same. His fist peak connected to the mountain peak—his fist itself was Evil Brahma Heaven!
The world of swordsmanship blocking the fist was crushed to its limit in that instant, like a translucent egg. And like an egg, it shattered before the mountain.
Just as a towering mountain crushed a tiny egg, there was not the slightest suspense as to the outcome.
But there was a slight deviation in the process... this egg formed from a world of swordsmanship shattered before the mountain could grind it down, rather than after.
Was the strongest part of an egg its shell?
No—it was the vibrant, radiant new life that emerged after the shell was broken from within!
This egg, crushed to its limit, welcomed rebirth one step ahead of the destruction brought by external force.
Before that infinitely flourishing life, the towering first mountain of the Sea of Sin was, for a moment, unable to press down.
Then... crack.
A sound that was not grand, yet incomparably clear, spread heavily through the mountain body.
A fissure