The battlefield fell silent.
The battlefield, packed with rank upon rank of troops, was peeled open like an onion. First, the Foundation Establishment, Golden Core, and Nascent Soul gods on the outer layers vanished like smoke. Then came the gods of the Dao Integration and Celestial Human realms.
The gods had no power to resist. A single sword stroke severed their divine cores and shattered the most vital part of their faith-born structure.
With the faintest, finest strands of Sword Qi, it extinguished their lives with unerring precision.
"Ghh..."
Blood gushed from the mouths of the Taiyin Divine Court's Supremes.
They managed to hold on a little longer.
The twenty-seven Supremes of the Taiyin divine lineage, each bearing a divine name such as Radiant Moon, Crescent Moon, or Yin Yun and supporting a branch of divine law to its limit, stared in terror. They struggled frantically, wildly swinging the divine ritual artifacts in their hands, but nothing worked.
These lofty Supremes—ordinary ones and Seven-Tribulation ones alike—differed from common divine generals and soldiers in only one respect: like chickens and ducks whose throats had been cut and blood drained, they staggered and thrashed a few times before their enormous bodies fell beneath the starry sky like meteors.
Portents of fallen gods spread in every direction, filling countless worshippers with dread.
They had died long ago. Beneath a single sword stroke from the Supreme Great Sun Sword Immortal Maiden, every trace of life had been extinguished, their souls destroyed.
What struggled now was only the lingering instinct of their bodies, spasms of faith-born divine power like twitching nerves. They meant nothing.
Boom!
Boom, boom...
After several breaths of silence, the sounds of shattering and explosions finally arrived.
The divine pressure that had blotted out the sky vanished. The terrifying divine formation, as