One Thought Sets Karmic Fire Ablaze to Burn Heaven-Deceiving Fraud; All Rivers Return to the Sea to Bestow the [Golden Register]
An exceedingly soft, casual snap of the fingers rang out atop Heavenly Abyss City's towering walls.
The sound was swallowed by the rolling thunder high above and the resounding bells of national destiny. It should have been all but imperceptible.
Yet as Chu Bai's two slender fingers brushed past each other, Sunset Glow City on Qingzhou's border, tens of thousands of miles away, underwent an earth-shattering upheaval at that very same instant—as though the apocalypse had descended!
On Sunset Glow City's Immortal Reception Platform.
A breath earlier, Ji Wujie had still been madly burning his blood essence, driving the unimaginably vast "demon-pacification merit" within him. The golden pillar shooting into the clouds shone so brilliantly that it seemed poised to pierce the heavens.
His incomparably handsome face twisted with extreme greed and exertion, his eyes fixed upon the Merit Balance high above, which represented Great Zhou's supreme legal authority.
Crush him! I killed thousands of great demons and saved a million lives! The Golden Register is mine! Ji Wujie roared hysterically in his heart.
But at the instant he offered up every last trace of his "merit" without reservation, connecting it fully and deeply to the law net of Great Zhou's national destiny—
Disaster struck!
"Aaaah!!!"
An utterly piercing scream, as though his soul were being torn apart alive, suddenly erupted from Ji Wujie's throat.
Beneath countless horrified gazes throughout the city, the sacred, magnificent, dazzling merit gold light above Ji Wujie's head suddenly seemed to have an entire vat of the thickest, filthiest ink poured into it!
No, it was not ink.
It was viscous, foul-smelling, blood-red—towering karmic obstruction!
In a single breath, the golden pillar soaring skyward transformed completely into a dark-red column of blood at a horrifying, visibly discernible speed.
And at the source of that bloody