Only the faint, scorched scent lingering in the air, mingled with a strange purifying aura, and a spatial ripple that briefly warped before swiftly settling bore silent witness to what had happened here.
The Southern Red Emperor, one of the Heavenly Court's Four Directional Emperors, an emperor at the peak of the first heaven of the Return to Void Realm, had fallen for good!
Body and soul annihilated, barred from reincarnation!
Countless divine senses and observation artifacts across the battlefield captured the scene clearly.
Time seemed to freeze at that moment.
Whether it was the Buddhist Sect and Heavenly Court armies still locked in fierce combat nearby, the scouts of various factions lurking farther away, or even Sword Lord Xuansha and Fairy Xinglan, who had just joined forces to deliver the killing blow, everyone fell into a momentary daze.
A Return to Void emperor had perished utterly before their eyes, almost as though he had been "erased"!
There was no earth-shattering self-detonation, no tragic, desperate struggle, not even anything valuable left behind.
The brutal sight chilled their hearts.
"R-Red Emperor... His Majesty... has fallen..."
"He... he's gone... completely vanished..."
Disbelieving murmurs and sharp intakes of breath rose faintly throughout the starry sky.
The next instant, panic burst through the Heavenly Court's Yantian Division army like a collapsing dam!
"The Red Emperor is dead! They killed him!"
"Run! Run for your lives! We can't hold them!"
"Heaven has doomed our Yantian Division!"
Their commander had fallen, their central flagship had been destroyed, and their formation's nexus had long since been wrecked. Now, after witnessing their supreme commander being "erased" so effortlessly, the Heavenly Court army's morale collapsed completely.
Golden warships darted about like headless flies, even beginning to collide with one another. Heavenly Soldiers threw aside helmets and armor and fled