The aftermath of Zhang Tie's strike had yet to fade. Violent shockwaves continued spreading in all directions like tidal waves, the ground heaving like a rolling sea. The entire barrier of the Cosmos Pearl shook violently beneath Zhang Tie's blow, its walls rippling in circles like a tranquil pond blasted by a shell, the ripples still spreading outward...
Where Zhang Tie's tower-like cudgel had struck, a gigantic crater over twenty thousand meters in diameter had appeared. More than two hundred meters beneath the crater, it had already reached the Cosmos Pearl's underground barrier. Much of the force from Zhang Tie's previous blow had been transmitted into that barrier, causing such tremendous vibrations. Around the crater, the blood energy left behind by the fallen Hundred-Faced Devil Emperor, along with vast amounts of the four elemental energies, shrouded the area like a dense purplish-red blood mist.
Seeing the pillar of energy rising into the sky after the Winged Devil's death, many divine generals and devil generals in the human and devil armies could not believe what they were seeing, even now.
The mighty Hundred-Faced Devil Emperor, a peerless powerhouse of the Sky-Piercing Realm, had actually been blasted to death by Zhang Tie's three cudgel strikes in such a battle.
This was not a one-on-one battle. It was one man fighting an army of a hundred thousand devil generals and two Devil Emperors. Yet in such a battle, Zhang Tie alone had accomplished something no one had dared imagine before: amid an army of thousands upon thousands, he had reduced the Hundred-Faced Devil Emperor, who had kept the human race in constant turmoil, to dust.
Even the Star Emperor, who was attacking the Cosmos Pearl's barrier from outside, revealed a trace of fear in his eyes as he watched that purplish-red pillar rise