"Crisis averted."

This bombardment...

Was not simply aimed at the sea's surface. It was... total coverage.

Here, coverage meant every stretch of sea within a thousand kilometers of the Eternal Night Continent, as well as the air above it. They could not be sure whether this anomaly could fly.

So the best solution was total coverage.

Launch the Sky-Piercing Pillars to an altitude of twenty thousand meters, then send them plummeting straight down.

Everything below twenty thousand meters.

Total coverage.

The Heavenly-Derivation Sky-Piercing Pillars could not provide total coverage, so in this bombardment, they merely served as individual "squares" on a chessboard, laying out the coverage area. The vast numbers of Standard Sky-Piercing Pillars were what filled those squares.

What he needed to do was fill the chessboard.

Cover every inch of this stretch of sea.

Even if it could conceal itself, even if it was immune to the damage of Standard Sky-Piercing Pillars, a vast blank patch amid flames engulfing heaven and earth would stand out like a firefly in the night.

It would last only an instant.

Too brief for human eyes to catch.

But Celestial Pivot could.

Sure enough.

As Celestial Pivot's voice rang out inside the Strategist Pavilion and another mass of Sky-Piercing Pillars rose into the air, the Anomaly Point... had been found.

At that moment, that filthy creature...

Was hiding in the air fifty kilometers from the Eternal Night Continent, watching the show.

Its true body was not among those eighteen gigantic anomalies at all.

It was cautious enough.

Even with such an overwhelming advantage, it refused to reveal its true body carelessly. Its true body was also a gigantic anomaly. Despite its enormous stature, it acted with such caution.

Only...

Its luck was not very good.

After Heavenly-Derivation Sky-Piercing Pillars struck its chest, several enormous,