At that moment, heaven and earth seemed to tremble.
"Ha ha—!"
Imu suddenly threw back her head and laughed. Her voice carried a hysterical madness and oppressive force, as if everything between heaven and earth lay within her control.
Her figure stood high in the sky like a deity. Gale winds swirled around her, while countless dark red energies churned beneath her feet like a hellish ocean on the verge of erupting.
The instant her fingers formed a seal, the entire space abruptly froze, as though even the air had been forcibly compressed. A heart-pounding aura of destruction swept over them like a tidal wave.
The Dark Giant standing between heaven and earth began to crack. Fissures spread across its body at a visible speed, racing over its limbs like a spiderweb. Light shone through those cracks from within, gradually breaking free of the darkness that bound it.
Jin An stood atop Elbaf, his brows tightly furrowed as the colossal figure splitting apart was reflected in his eyes.
His hand instinctively clenched around the sword at his waist, his knuckles turning white.
That oppressive force felt like a thousand-ton boulder pressing against his chest.
Boom!!!
A deafening explosion rolled down like heavenly thunder. The ground of Elbaf jolted violently, and even the surrounding city walls swayed faintly beneath the shockwave.
The Dark Giant finally collapsed, transforming into hundreds of millions of shards of light that scattered into the void.
At that moment, it was as if ten thousand blazing suns had bloomed at once—
The dazzling light made it nearly impossible to open one's eyes.
Waves of light surged forth, illuminating all of Elbaf. Countless Giants, soldiers, and pirates raised their heads toward the sky, their pupils reflecting nothing but that pillar of light piercing the heavens.
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