"Boom!"
The instant the two utterly opposing powers, born of the same root and source, collided.
The entire space of the eighth layer seemed to freeze for a moment.
Then heaven shattered and earth split.
A dazzling radiance exploded—a storm of destruction woven from fragments of order and the howls of chaos.
Wherever the light swept, the blood-colored earth crumbled inch by inch.
The black mountains that had stood for endless ages collapsed like sandcastles, reduced to dust.
The void was annihilated, revealing the eternal nothingness beyond. Chaos aura poured backward from that nothingness, only to be churned into an even greater frenzy by the impact.
"Retreat! Hurry!"
Huang Ruoxi's beautiful face drained of color. The Divine Phoenix bloodline within her screamed warnings, and that instinctive terror nearly robbed her of the strength to stand.
She desperately channeled Phoenix Divine Speed, carrying everyone farther away.
Xiao Yan held the Black-Weight Ruler. Its body trembled faintly, resonating under the pressure of those two overwhelming auras.
He stared fixedly at that golden figure, his teeth grinding audibly.
"Master, he..."
Su Qinglian could not finish her sentence.
The battlefield ahead had already dissolved into a haze of chaos. With her cultivation, she could not see through it at all.
She could only sense two auras colliding madly. Every clash felt as though two gods were swinging world-destroying hammers, smashing them against the very origin of this world.
"Is that... the Chaos Sinful Dragon?"
The Heaven-Splitting Demon Mantis's emerald compound eyes were filled with gravity.
It had once stood at the God Venerable peak and had witnessed countless grand spectacles.
It had even fought true powerhouses of the Dragon Clan. Yet the enormous figure looming intermittently within the gray mist still sent a shudder through its heart.
That primordial god-devil had formed from pure