Jiang Ding left.
Nothing on this battlefield held him any longer. He walked straight toward True Lord Bone Forest, intending to apologize to her properly.
An Tuzi, Ji Liuyue, the Tianji Daoist, and the others kept their distance, held their breath, and looked toward the dozens of imperial heirs of the Horned Demon Imperial Clan.
Their bodies were rigid and their faces contorted. They still looked alive, but all life had vanished from their enormous eyes.
Then, at a certain moment—
A faint line of blood appeared across the Azure Sky Imperial Son's throat.
In the blink of an eye, it widened and spread all the way around his neck.
Then—
With a thud, the Azure Sky Imperial Son's enormous head fell from the sky into the deathly still sea of stars.
That was only the beginning.
After his head fell, the heads of dozens of other imperial heirs followed. One hundred-zhang giant after another became headless in an instant, fountains of blood spraying several zhang high. It was a spectacular sight.
The imperial heirs had no power to resist. They died in droves like ants.
Among them was the Azureflame Ancient Imperial Heir, who had harnessed the power of the force order through a military formation, as well as seven other ancient imperial heirs of comparable strength. None of them was any different from the rest.
They truly were stronger.
But before that sword light, wreathed in the rules of six orders as worlds dimly arose and perished within it, they were no different from anyone else.
The sword struck.
They died.
That was all. There was nothing more.
The entire boundless starfield fell silent. Only the sound of blood bursting from the headless bodies of the Horned Demon Imperial Clan's imperial heirs remained. No one else had been