Open Stratagem

Rumble!!!

Amid a deafening roar, heaven and earth shook violently.

On the arena, darkness so deep one could not see a hand before one's face spread rapidly from the center of the two terrifying attacks!

Like a Black Sun,

it suddenly swelled!

The dazzling spatial sword light and the phantom of the great sun shattered at the same time,

then were swallowed and obliterated by a black-hole vortex that radiated a terrifying aura, as though it could annihilate everything between heaven and earth!

Amid the violent upheaval,

the arena floor cracked layer upon layer. It was as if an invisible, monstrous force had crushed down upon it, grinding apart stone that could easily withstand the power of a cultivator at the Peak Ninth Level of Out-of-Body Realm. The destruction spread outward in a visible circle!

Countless fragments of stone rose into the air as though they had lost all weight, flying up toward the sky!

But then,

in the next instant,

the Black Sun vortex that had been expanding and devouring everything seemed to reach its limit.

Boom, boom, boom!!!

An unbearably brilliant light burst forth.

Blinding white light covered the entire arena in an instant!

At the same time,

a white shock wave roared outward from the two fighters like a tidal wave, sweeping away everything above and below!

The dense cloud of stones that had risen from the ground vanished in an instant, reduced entirely to dust!

As for the arena floor below,

it collapsed at once, leaving a massive crater several hundred yards across!

Everything that had been inside the crater was annihilated by the horrifying energy of the collision!

"Gasp! What terrifying power! That arena can take a full-force blow from a cultivator at the Peak Ninth Level of Out-of-Body Realm without a scratch!"

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