Before his words had faded, the enormous hand slammed shut, like five pillars holding up the heavens collapsing at once.
The Heavenly Baleful Demon King faltered, and the qi locking onto Li Qingqiu and the other three broke off immediately. His brows knitted fiercely. With a shake of his arms, he unleashed enough force to topple mountains and overturn seas, intent on tearing that great hand apart!
Whoosh!
The roar of surging ocean waves rose through the air as countless currents boiled and howled. For miles around, everything seemed to be steaming inside a furnace, and all qi, tangible and intangible, came surging in.
The great hand Heavenly Baleful had shattered streamed upward in rushing currents of qi, gathering into a lustrous, jade-white palm in midair.
Under the light of the sky, that palm shone with a soul-seizing radiance. For an instant, it seemed to steal every color from the world, making it impossible to look away.
Even Heavenly Baleful, a supreme Grandmaster who had attained the Five Extinction Demon realm and the third level of the Human Dao, paled slightly.
"Brother Hong-"
The fright in Li Qingqiu's heart had yet to subside. He looked up in astonishment to see that Hong Yuan, whom Heavenly Baleful had blasted away with a palm strike, had somehow reappeared.
Before he could think any further, Hong Yuan turned his palm over and pressed it violently down toward Heavenly Baleful.
In an instant, everything before them dimmed. The world lost its colors, leaving only that dazzling palm plunging from the heavens like a falling star.
With a sizzling crackle, a spark of lightning exploded in the void. In a flash, everything for miles around seemed to catch fire, turning a ghastly white.
Screams erupted everywhere. Many spectators whose cultivation was inadequate began bleeding from