Nine Great Suns Strike

A giant palm dozens of kilometers wide

came crashing down on Jiang Ding!

It was made entirely of primordial heavy water. Shrimp soldiers, crab generals, minor gods, and demonic beasts sat cross-legged at the nodes of its meridians and bones, chanting supreme scriptures. Rings of azure ripples threaded with runes spread outward.

Countless indistinct voices chanting scripture carried in every direction. Wherever they reached, the officers and soldiers of a fleet froze, their eyes going blank. Dazed and witless, their souls clouded, they could no longer respond to the fleet.

At the center of the giant palm, ring after ring of swirling ripples devoured everything around them, exerting a powerful pull. A cluster of missiles from an army's immortal-city killing formation flew nearby and was swallowed in an instant. As though chewing, the palm spat out a few blackened metal fragments.

This move bore some resemblance to the legendary great divine ability, A Universe in One's Sleeve.

Nine out of ten Nascent Soul True Lords under heaven would be crushed beneath that palm. There was no other possibility.

"Slash!"

Jiang Ding offered no reply.

No elaborate spells of a spell cultivator, no layers of preparation combining formations, domains, battle arrays, and every other means. He simply brought his sword down.

Boom!

At a thought, the Annihilation Sword Domain unfolded. Blue-gold Sword Qi surged in every direction, swallowing the azure spell domain.

Within it, minor gods, merfolk, sea folk, and other beings shouted as they charged with weapons in hand, forming battle arrays. But the tide of Annihilation Sword Qi swept them away. Not a bone remained; their peoples were wiped out.

A Great Sun rose!

It hurtled toward the Sea Kingdom in the Palm with a thunderous roar. That sound stamped itself into Chong Yuanzi's soul, forging a swift passage