Defeated.
In a single instant, Lingbao Realm's last light had been defeated!
The Spirit Treasure Divine Lord possessed by the Supreme Clarity Spiritual Treasure Palace had not gone down without a fight. The instant the Law-Annihilating Sun and the Eastern Extreme Demon Sect's battery of Solar Magnetism Annihilation Divine-Light Cannons descended, he burned his vital blood. His Ninefold Spiritual Treasure Dao Ring blazed, reflecting a phantom at the very limit of a rule branch and gathering boundless power.
The Spirit Treasure Divine Lord transformed into a bronze giant that stood between heaven and earth. His body gleamed with a metallic sheen, every inch shrouded in that phantom at the limit of a rule branch, indestructible as Vajra.
He also held aloft a pitch-black primordial cauldron, the supreme heavy weapon passed down from the ancient Lingbao Realm.
Though the Spirit Treasure Divine Lord's foundations were weak, in that instant, under Lingbao Realm's last light, he wielded power far beyond that of an upper-realm Immortal Order's Dao Child in the Dao Integration realm.
That power was enough to sweep aside any force beneath the level of a great chiliocosm!
It was more than enough to let the sect's surviving seeds rise again, give them a foothold in the world, and lend their Dao Path an immense boost out of nowhere.
In theory, it should have been enough!
An Immortal Order's last light was meant to give its inheritors a way to survive, not to pit them against forces on the level of a great chiliocosm.
Yet the moment that power touched the Great Sun Sword Lord and the Eastern Extreme Demon Sect Fleet, it collapsed. It melted away like ice and snow.
It offered no resistance whatsoever!
There was none of the imagined back-and-forth, no evenly matched struggle. The gulf was beyond