In the end, Ling Yuan's flesh, soul—everything he possessed—was completely set ablaze at this moment, finally transforming into a pure wave of energy that swept outward.
Boom—
A deafening explosion, as though the world were ending, rang out!
Within the Spirit Realm, another earth-shattering blow had arrived. Every Dou Sheng expert in the sky was forced into a miserable state by the attack, erecting defenses as they continued rushing outward, trying their best to avoid the impact from the core area.
If one spoke purely of destructive force, this wave of explosions was inferior to the previous combined ice-and-fire strike of the three great experts.
However, the timing of this attack was simply too critical. It had come when everyone was in their worst condition. As long as one had participated in the great battle, no matter how much they had held back or how abundant their Dou Qi reserves were, by this stage, at most one or two tenths of their Dou Qi remained.
Nearly everyone was already at their limit. Rather than fighting, they were burning their willpower, unwilling to collapse just yet. At such a moment, Ling Yuan, a peak six-star expert, detonating himself was enough to throw every expert present into a life-and-death crisis. Not to mention that with Ling Yuan's self-destruction, most of the remaining Spirit Clan Dou Shengs also harbored the will to die. Several of them detonated themselves alongside Ling Yuan. This made the shockwave even more violent and even more dangerous.
The two people Ling Yuan hated most, whom he had specifically locked onto—Hun Mang of the Soul Clan and Xiao Yan of the alliance—had to bear the impact from the closest range.
The moment Xiao Yan was intercepted by the Dou Qi energy triggered by the great formation, he knew he