A mournful light pierced the darkness. Because of the strange Holy Light within him, the Remnant Immortal was being suppressed by a group of powerful Vow Envoys.
An Lan kept muttering that they could not let such a creature reach the Exotic Domain. Fighting through his injuries, he struck the Remnant Immortal whenever he could.
"You narrow-minded fools. You still haven't realized that none of us has a real body here."
The Remnant Immortal sneered. Having lost so much power, he looked far more normal now, but his gaze remained fixed on a certain place.
"So I lacked the destined connection after all?"
His voice shook the Great Dao. With a trace of desolation, he cast out a decree.
As though flying toward the end of a prologue, undying light of the Immortal Path gathered around him. His gleaming battle armor shattered inch by inch, as did the Bronze Immortal Palace behind him and the cultivators who remained.
With a boom, his primordial spirit exploded into a shower of light that scattered like rain.
The rain fell over All-Heavens City, ignoring nearly every defense and piercing all things. The dark creatures, Kami, and prodigies Shi Hao had summoned absorbed it as though receiving a blessing.
Then the monsters of the Immortal Path—including the affected Vow Envoys—their bodies covered in bronze eyes or oily yellow-brown feathers, assembled into an army. Obeying their instincts, they launched a magnificent charge toward the sky.
"Why does that look a little like the Immortal-Breaking Curse that hit me back then?" Shi Hao had sensed danger the instant the Remnant Immortal self-destructed and had taken Lu Mingfei away.
Ignoring Dharma Power, defying runes of the Immortal Path, and piercing all things—those were the traits of the Immortal-Breaking Curse, once said to be impossible to counter. Yet