A blazing sun descended, crushing all beneath it.
At the heart of that destruction, the web of rules shattered and dissolved. Space seemed to collapse, leaving only tens of thousands of kilometers of deathly silent starfield.
The layers of blood-path and soul-path rules, each unbreakable and filled with profound mysteries, had been torn wide open!
The void fell silent for a moment.
Two ragged streaks of light flew out of the sun's afterglow: Bloodbone True Lord and Dark Soul Divine Lord.
Around Bloodbone True Lord, layers of rune-inscribed bone fragments formed a vast blood-river formation containing countless soldiers. It had always been unbreakable. In the past, it had withstood the attacks of several Dao Integration cultivators without yielding. As one of the Bloodbone Skeleton Clan's inherited treasures, it was well known throughout the region.
Now, beneath the sun, it lay in ruins. It was charred black, many of its bone fragments reduced to white ash, all life gone from them.
Dark Soul Divine Lord had fared even worse. His formation of countless ghosts had always been famed for its eerie intangibility and endless transformations. But against a scorching attack that destroyed everything across its reach, there was nowhere to flee. He had taken the full force of the sword strike.
If he had not hidden inside Bloodbone True Lord's skull at the critical moment—and been allowed in—the wounds he had already suffered would likely have forced him from the battlefield by now.
And that had been only one sword strike!
"No wonder Heavenly Fortune and the others were so terrified."
"No wonder Heavenly Secret, Black Tortoise, and the others reacted so strongly that they even lost their reason for a time..."
Bloodbone True Lord stared coldly at the azure-robed youth in the distance.
Now that he had no path of