The instant Xia Yuan finished his final syllable, the world fell silent.
Golden light erupted like dazzling fireworks, and the clash of energies rang out with a deafening boom.
The black-and-red beam of light bursting from the tip of the holy sword seemed to tear open the curtain of the world.
Everything in its path was swallowed, as if space itself had been devoured.
The coastal road beneath their feet was the first to suffer. The gray asphalt silently vaporized without even a wisp of smoke.
Next came the mountainside beside the road. The hundred-meter cliff was cut like butter by a hot knife, and the falling chunks of rock were pulverized by the shock waves.
Order's pupils shrank to pinpricks. His domain was as fragile as a sheet of paper before the black light, unable to hold out for even half a second.
"How is this possible..."
He didn't even have time to scream before the black light swallowed his entire body, and his health bar instantly plunged to the bottom.
Bomber Dantai Yanan wasn't nearly so lucky. He had been much closer to Xia Yuan to begin with.
Though he dodged as quickly as he could, the black light still swept over him, shearing off half his shoulder and his entire left leg.
He writhed on the scorched earth like a bug that had been crushed underfoot.
His health bar was down to a sliver, and he didn't even have the strength to raise a hand.
Against a move with such devastating power, being killed instantly was actually less painful, so Order was the lucky one.
The beam continued onward without losing any force.
It blasted through three mountains and sent the East Sea surging backward, exposing black reefs a hundred meters beneath the seabed.
The seawater boiled