Tenfold Chain Detonation! Even Gods Must Bleed

Fifty miles away.

The seven raced across the wilderness, having just emerged from the last underground vine tunnel Ling Shuang had opened.

Ye Linglong's crimson Demon Eyes stayed fixed on the Heaven Soul Tower. Her silver hair whipped wildly in the night wind.

"Three seconds."

"Two seconds."

"One second—"

Her voice vanished.

Not because she had stopped speaking.

Every sound between heaven and earth had vanished at once.

The wind was gone.

The insects fell silent.

Even the seven's ragged breathing was swallowed whole by some unseen force.

Then came the light.

Not the light of an explosion.

Light that burned through the entire sky above Sun Moon City's northeastern quarter.

White, pure, ten thousand times brighter than the midday sun, it shot straight up from the Heaven Soul Tower and tore through every cloud in the night sky.

The Core Array of the Ninth-Level Fixed Soul-Guided Artillery Shell detonated inside the Heaven Soul Tower's energy reservoir.

By Su Chen's calculations, its lethal radius was two miles.

Enough to cover the Heaven Soul Tower, the palace's east wing, and military headquarters.

But he had overlooked one thing.

The Heaven Soul Tower had been built 117 years ago.

For 117 years, the Sun Moon Empire had poured the strength of the entire nation into feeding Soul Power to that towering structure. The energy stored within it was denser than that of any known soul-guided device.

The ninth-level shell's explosion was not the end.

It was only the fuse.

Chu Yao reacted first.

Her training in poison arts had made her acutely sensitive to fluctuations in energy.

Her face turned deathly pale in the white light.

"That's wrong—the reservoir's chain-detonating!"

Mo Qianye spun around.

Where the Heaven Soul Tower stood, a second pillar of light surged into the sky.

A third.

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