458 Kicking the Southern Dipper to Open Earth Veins, Fisting the Northern Dipper to Pierce Heaven's Gate

Before the sword-light arrived, its sword intent struck first. A murderous intent of divine lands steeped in grim slaughter, with weapons rising on every side, clouds winding around the cosmos, and living beings reduced to ashes, suddenly pierced through the minor world and shrouded He Ping from above.

Rip!

The defenses of Puppet Demon City seemed to have been torn open. The thirty-six Great Treasury True Talismans, which had been stirring restlessly, returned to normal, their rays of light gradually dimming.

Buzz!

A blinding flash erupted. One of the Five Calamities divine weapons swung, thrust, and slew. Its blade trembled through the void, white radiance surging from its sword-light, containing an indescribable—indeed, inexpressible—majesty!

Brilliant light flickered. This streak of sword-light was virtually unstoppable, its momentum sweeping across mountains, rivers, heaven, and earth. It was a calamity, unprecedented, vast and endless, dragging all living beings and countless people into this immense catastrophe.

Rumble!

An aura like a boundless sea of blood flooded the minor world. Natural disasters and human calamities; starving corpses littering the wilderness, white bones blanketing the plains, seas of fire stretching to the heavens, deep ravines scoring the earth—scene after scene of hellish visions transformed into shifting phantasms.

A thousand mountains, no birds in flight!

Ten thousand paths, heaped with human bones!

In an instant, all manner of horrific scenes emerged like a turning wheel. This powerful artistic conception had reached the point where reality and illusion were tangled beyond distinction!

Such swordsmanship contained profound transformations on the level of the mind, exquisite beyond compare.

As the sword intent bore down, He Ping felt a force slam into the depths of his mind. Every nerve seemed on the verge of snapping, followed by a crack—as though something deep within his consciousness had shattered.

In the blink of an