Seen from above, the entire Ximo Island, roughly a hundred li across, exploded from within, spewing vast quantities of multicolored light and vapor. With force that truly toppled mountains and overturned seas, it battered the seawater outward, rapidly expanding to over three hundred li across.
Holding the Mystic-Demon Shuttle steady in his left hand, Shi Feiyang spun it at high speed in the center, forcibly drawing in all the light and vapor before compressing them inward.
The explosion was far too powerful. Qi Nangong had unleashed it with all his strength, intent on perishing together with the Heavenly Lust Cult Master. His ravaged flesh was blasted to ash in the first instant, his Primordial Spirit shattered into countless soul fragments, and then the Fallen God Ward was about to explode as well.
Shi Feiyang felt it would be too great a pity to let this treasure be destroyed. He shot Five-Colored Divine Light from his right hand—azure, red, yellow, white, and black, the purest precelestial and postcelestial Five Elements Essence Qi he had cultivated throughout his life. Using wood to overcome earth, earth to overcome water, water to overcome fire, fire to overcome metal, and metal to overcome wood, he linked it to the Fallen God Ward and forcibly suppressed the Magic Treasure's impending explosion.
The Fallen God Ward was Qi Nangong's supreme mountain-guarding treasure, bound to his very life and second only to the Qingyang Pillar. The force of its deliberate detonation was immense, and even Shi Feiyang had to expend tremendous effort to suppress it.
The five-colored radiance was drawn back upward. When the light faded, an exquisitely crafted set of five linked ceremonial arches made of colored jade rested quietly in his palm.
By then, Qi Nangong had blasted both his body and spirit to pieces and