The divine radiance that had drowned heaven, earth, stars, and moon slowly faded away. Above the nine heavens, only a single Dark Gold Nine-Horned Star hung motionless, its nine horns trailing rays of light.
Below, the Azure Sand Sea had become a terrifying sinkhole tens of thousands of miles deep. Like an enormous bowl, its widest upper rim spanned a full million miles...
The earth was vast and solid, and such power could not destroy it. Yet this terrifying alteration of the landscape had greatly affected the Western Wasteland.
With this giant bowl as its center, nearly every living being within the area stretching all the way to the edge of the Nine Provinces had been destroyed.
How terrifying was a full-force battle between thirteenth-rank Divine Lords? Even the spreading aftermath of their power had dealt near-cataclysmic devastation to the Western Wasteland.
Gao Xian's figure also emerged. He wore a blue-gold Fish Tail Crown, while his magnificent black-and-white heavenly robes fluttered wildly in the night wind.
At this moment, Gao Xian was the sole center of the nine heavens and ten lands. No matter how resplendent the divine light of the Dark Gold Nine-Horned Star above his head, it served only as his backdrop.
Divine radiance shone across the human realm. Whether in the Nine Provinces or the Four Seas and Eight Wastelands, every intelligent race could witness that terrifying collision through the boundless divine light. They saw the Dark Gold Nine-Horned Star, and they saw Gao Xian, whose might dominated the nine heavens.
Such a divine and miraculous spectacle made the intelligent races everywhere kneel and bow their heads, chanting "Taiji Divine Lord" in prayer.
Though the human race of the Nine Provinces was numerous, it was outnumbered by the various intelligent races of the Four Seas and Eight