Everyone understood that success or failure hinged on this one attempt!
Emperor Huangze and Tianzhenzi exchanged smiles, weary and resolute, yet carrying a trace of release and anticipation.
"Imperial Preceptor, this is the final stretch!"
"Your Majesty, after you!"
Neither held anything back any longer. They burned the last of their life essence and the essence of their primordial spirits!
Emperor Huangze gave a long cry. A phantom of the entire Huangze Dynasty appeared behind him, and the wishes of countless trillions of his subjects converged, merging with his remaining imperial dragon qi to form a Sword of State that pierced heaven and earth. Its tip pointed straight at that chaotic lightning sphere!
Tianzhenzi's hands danced rapidly. All his remaining formation runes surged forth like moths flying into a flame. Rather than defend, they constructed an incomparably intricate Inverse Origin Boundary-Breaking Formation that drew upon the origin power of the entire secret realm, with him as its core!
"Break!!!"
The two roared in unison, turning themselves into the ultimate attack and charging without hesitation into that final sphere of annihilating lightning!
Boom!!!!
An indescribable radiance erupted, instantly swallowing all sound, color, and perception.
The barrier around the viewing platform shattered at once. Every cultivator was flung away by that irresistible force, and those with weaker cultivation fainted outright.
An unknown length of time passed before that destructive radiance gradually faded.
Everyone struggled to look toward the summit of Huangji Peak.
Emperor Huangze and Tianzhenzi were nowhere to be seen.
More than half the summit had been sheared away, leaving devastation everywhere.
Yet where the summit had once stood, a pure, peaceful pillar of seven-colored light, brimming with boundless vitality and the Dao resonance of a higher order, slowly descended from the heavens like a bridge of ascension. It pierced the