Wu Heng kept descending along the light barrier, tracing it back to its source. He desperately wanted to know what this second item was and what effect it had.
The great battle continued.
The evil god's consciousness, which had attached itself to the entire island of Japan, kept battering the barrier. Then, a stream of light suddenly rippled across its surface.
Like a device that absorbed light, it sucked in every ray from its surroundings.
Darkness spread endlessly, as though a curtain had been drawn, extending into the unseen distance.
Then the entire world fell into darkness for an instant before becoming bright again.
In that instant, every source of light—lamplight, electric light, firelight, or sunlight—converged upon the barrier.
Like a concave-convex mirror, it fused all the light together and fired it at the island crab the evil god had transformed into.
The ice began to melt!
Even ice harder than steel could not withstand such extreme light and heat.
The barrier was like a pressure cooker. The ice evaporated into mist, which mixed with frost mist to form slush.
The slush filled the entire interior of the barrier and began melting again.
This time, it was not only the ice that melted, but also wood, plastic, steel, and every other kind of material. Things that should not have melted seemed to have lost their original material structure.
Under the barrier's influence, they turned liquid.
The liquid forms of various materials mixed together, becoming a thick, murky current.
Beneath these melted liquids, the evil god's fallen consciousness separated from the melting island and reverted to the evil god's original appearance: paper-faced samurai armor.
It felt endless pain.
Wu Heng continued diving along the barrier, passing through the seawater and sinking into the mantle until he reached the end of the