When all four Dao Derivation True Lords had been entangled, when Meng Tianhai summoned yet another pinnacle combatant, what could possibly stop that bloodstained Fate Rose of starlight?
The three people strung together by the Fate Rose gave their answer.
They communicated through the ocean of subconsciousness, unobstructed by the power of delusion, and saw the final truth through Severing Delusion.
This was their final answer to Fu Lanting's strike!
Dou Zhao was the first to be pierced through by the Fate Rose. After all, he was still some distance from the battlefield within the little world of farmland. Next came the creator of the True Source Fire Realm, and last was Chongxuan Zun, whom Meng Tianhai had long fixated upon.
To avoid mishaps to the greatest extent possible, Meng Tianhai had chosen to pierce the three in that order.
Thus, Dou Zhao was closest to the flower, Jiang Wang stood in the middle, and Chongxuan Zun hung at the very edge.
Though their bodies and souls were restrained, though their power was leaking away, though even their consciousness had blurred, their fighting spirit had never gone out.
In the deep sea of their subconsciousness, they completed their final communication—and then waited.
Waited for this final moment.
Chongxuan Zun opened his eyes and wielded Severing Delusion. Facing a Dao Derivation True Lord, he still carved out a minute opening. With seven Star Wheels, he answered the call of the Big Dipper, pushing Jiang Wang's True Self Dao Sword to its utmost limit and bringing about All Under Heaven Is Winter.
Only when the seven stars shone together did they finally create an opportunity to strike.
Jiang Wang, meanwhile, bestowed the entirety of that vast killing intent of heaven upon Dou Zhao.
And Dou Zhao, his Battle Golden Body blazing bright,