Tianyi gripped his great knife in both hands and roared as he plunged it into the ground.
The Crimson Flame burning over his body surged toward the blade's tip, burrowed underground, and vanished. Every trace of the Crimson Flame enveloping Tianyi disappeared, like a candle snuffed out in an instant.
But immediately afterward—
The entire world seemed to pause for a heartbeat, and the earth's crust began to tremble.
The next moment—
Countless fragments flew into the air. Near-endless flames erupted like a volcano, blasting out from deep beneath the Earth's Core with Tianyi at their center. Their range was immense, clearing a vast swath of the surrounding strange tide almost instantly!
Even an approaching Wraith King died a horrific death under that strike.
One man had slain a Wraith King.
Anywhere on the Eternal Night Continent, that feat would have been enough to inspire awe.
Just as Tianyi had said.
Every member of Eternal Night Hall's Field Operations Group had to be capable of holding back a wave of the strange tide alone, even if only for an instant.
The strike ended.
Tianyi stood unsteadily on the ground, his face deathly pale. He looked toward the area he had just cleared, only to see an even larger strange tide fill it again almost in the blink of an eye. Countless frenzied, savage strange entities charged toward him, heedless of death.
A foul stench struck his face on the raging wind.
Just then—
The Parent-Child Stone in his clothes suddenly grew hot, and Domain Lord Chen's familiar, grave voice came through.
"Reinforcements from the Mortal Domain will arrive soon."
"Hold on."
He glanced back at the Yellow Springs Pass Defense Line behind him and suddenly smiled. He hefted the knife in his hand, turned toward the endless strange tide ahead,