At this moment, the Heaven-Opening Axe seemed to come alive. As Zhang Shuai poured his vast true essence into it, throughout the entire Cultivation Star Domain, every star, every living being—wherever spiritual energy existed, whether it was the gentle spiritual energy of the five elements, violent stellar power, profound earth-vein essence, or chaos primordial energy drifting through the void...
All of it was forcibly drawn out and pulled in by an incomparably domineering will, transformed into invisible torrents of dazzling light that crossed the vast starry sky, ignored the barriers between star systems, and converged madly upon a single target—the Heaven-Opening Axe in Zhang Shuai's hand—like countless rivers flowing into the sea!
The spectacle was so magnificent that it was suffocating.
The Heavenly Sage Cultivation Star where Zhang Shuai stood bore the brunt of it. In an instant, more than half the spiritual energy of the entire planet was drained away. Heaven and earth lost their color, mountains and rivers lost their vitality, and countless cultivators were horrified to discover that their connection to the world's spiritual energy had been forcibly severed. Those with weaker cultivation collapsed directly to the ground!
A vast, nearly inexhaustible amount of heaven-and-earth spiritual energy poured into the Heaven-Opening Axe. The dark red bloodlight on its body grew ever more intense, as though blood might drip from it at any moment, while its terrifying pressure surged geometrically!
Zhang Shuai felt as if his power had no end.
He even developed a mad illusion: if he wished it, a single swing of his axe could utterly destroy the boundless Heavenly Sage Cultivation Star beneath his feet, which had birthed countless lives and civilizations, along with the star domain it inhabited.
Faced with Zhang Shuai's endlessly rising aura, Xu Hong, who had remained as calm as an