He Qing's voice was instantly swallowed by a screech loud enough to tear eardrums. Coming even faster than the wailing sound, a deep blue radiance had already permeated the core layer of the raging flames and golden light.
Yu Ci watched as the Mingwang golden body made a backward, upward-gazing motion, and then everything froze right there!
Utterly silent—in truth, no other sound could be heard in the ears at all—people simply saw that under the deep blue radiance, the long arm holding the Vajra Pestle snapped instantly. Then came the splitting of the skull and shoulders; the overwhelmingly massive golden body cleaved diagonally into two halves. Hair-raising, delicate fissures spread in all directions from the slash wound that had cut diagonally downward.
The sound of shattering wrapped around a series of fine, explosive crackles, roaring into existence. Yet beneath the overwhelming screech, it merely kicked up a few insignificant "ripples" before leaving not a trace.
People opened their eyes wide, mouths agape, watching the Mingwang golden body—which had been acting so insufferably arrogant just a moment before—collapse right then and there. As for the deep blue radiance that had triggered it all, after cleaving the golden body, the halo seemed to expand slightly. Its momentum remained undiminished as it plunged steeply downward!
The screech that shook the mind suddenly changed, twisting into a sharp sound like a steel wire before abruptly turning into a chaotic roar. The deep blue radiance was no longer a mere point of starlight or a fierce thread of light like at the very beginning; instead, it was expanding drastically, swelling in the blink of an eye to the thickness of a water vat, its length surging further to several dozen zhang. Carrying a restless, tumultuous roar, it slammed heavily into the ground!
Before Yu