Pitch-black flames of destruction churned wildly inside the Dark Night Monarch.
He had gathered that soul essence through the Great Destruction of three eras. Now he had thrown every last bit of it into the fire.
Crack! Crack!
Countless chains of law snapped inside him.
The last thirty percent of his ancient essence had lain dormant deep within his flesh to evade the Great Dao's scrutiny. In that instant, he tore it all loose!
"Break for me!"
The Dark Night Monarch threw back his head and let out a shrill howl.
His body shriveled in an instant, skin clinging tight to bone. His long black hair turned snow-white before their eyes, then broke away inch by inch and scattered.
He was exhausting everything he had!
He was burning his True Spirit!
Whatever the outcome of this battle, once his soul essence burned out, the Dark Night Monarch would be destroyed in body and soul. He would not even have a chance at reincarnation.
In return, he gained the power to destroy almost anything—for a short time.
Rumble—!
A terrifying pressure beyond the ninth heaven of Hunyuan Limitless erupted from the Dark Night Monarch's withered body.
The entire sky above the Mortal Realm turned bloodred.
The earth heaved violently. A full third of the East Sea evaporated. Beyond the Thirty-Three Heavens, stars exploded one after another, falling across the Three Realms as a rain of fire.
The Heavenly Dao's river surged. The stable laws of the Primordial World warped under the crushing force!
Beyond the Heavenly Dao Realm!
Half-Step Transcendence!
It was a force of destruction that had no place within the laws of the present Primordial Wilderness!
Space collapsed into black holes around the Dark Night Monarch. He thrust his withered palm forward.
Boom!
The remaining edge of the first