"Sacrificial ritual?"
Yu Chen glanced at the newly born Death Knight. After devouring the Seraph, the aura of death around him remained dense, yet beneath the boundless true meaning of death lay another sacred power—ancient and everlasting, untouched by the passage of heaven and earth's years.
Wings steeped in death spread open, and wave after wave of near-substantial ripples radiated outward.
They were the Death Knight's own power of death, along with the darkness transformed through the Seraph's sacrifice. Under the command of the sacred power within the knight's body, the two were unified and integrated, reaching an entirely new peak.
Wherever they passed, all things vanished. Space began to collapse, Cosmic Light began to break off, and everything marched toward an irreversible, eternal end.
By all reason, as spacetime shattered, the spacetime Yu Chen had seized should have vanished, and both Yu Chen and the Death Knight should have returned to their original positions.
But Yu Chen's methods were no ordinary ones, and the swords standing around them were the fruit of his entire cultivation. How could the sword formation they formed be commonplace?
He raised the Severing Sword in his hand. Streams of ever-changing sword light crisscrossed and shifted. The existing space and Cosmic Light began to separate, transforming into barriers like dream phantoms and bubbles, yet carrying the aura of genuine spacetime, trapping the Death Knight within.
Ring after ring of death ripples was sliced apart by the barriers. The Serpent Curse Banner and Curse Sword continuously corroded their essence, the invisible swords shattered their true meaning, and the Wind-Slaying Sword absorbed their remnants.
Specks of ash accumulated into a patch of fertile soil. A brand-new Illusory Ancient Tree sprouted from it, standing in midair as countless branches and leaves grew forth, evolving layer upon layer of