The shriveled lump of flesh, faintly tinged with blood, stared coldly at the azure-robed youth nearby as countless fleshworms writhed across its body.
Pressure as vast as a mountain bore down, and space froze instantly.
This was the power of rules from a higher realm. A mere wisp could suppress billions of lower-level cultivators. It differed in essence—the mark of a star-domain-level life-form.
"This power..."
Jiang Ding closed his eyes slightly.
His soul trembled, and a chill crept up his spine.
It was the survival instinct life had evolved over billions of years, warning it to flee danger and stay alive. That instinct was vital to survival, and courage could not change it.
Clang!
Jiang Ding drew his sword.
Hum!
In that instant, boundless sunlight burst forth!
The entire minor world seethed. The Northern Plains, the Western Desert, the Southern Border, the East Sea... the Yue Kingdom, the Chu Kingdom, Tushan Immortal City, Beast-Spirit Immortal City... Throughout the world, countless earth-dragon spirit veins surged beneath the land. Formation patterns emerged everywhere, knotting and winding around one another.
At last, billions of rays of sunlight took on solid form amid the star river. They spread outward, converged into one, and formed a brilliant sun of destruction that rose through the stars and drove away all darkness.
One of the Great Sun Sword Pavilion's supreme immortal-path inheritances!
The Great Sun Boundary-Fixing Formation, which used an entire world as its foundation, ordered yin and yang, and drew upon the Dao of Heaven!
In that instant, the unease in Jiang Ding's heart vanished.
An entire world stood behind him. The Brilliant Sun manifestation born of the formation hung at his back, and with a single thought, he could command the world's spirit veins for his own use.
"Senior,"
"I really shouldn't say this. It