Heavenly Sword waited a moment, but what he wanted never appeared. He turned to look at Chen Miao.
The instant he noticed something was wrong with Chen Miao, he barked a warning.
"Chen Miao!"
But that shout failed to wake Chen Miao.
Realizing something had gone wrong, Heavenly Sword hesitated no longer.
He tilted his head back to stare at the swirling black clouds, and strands of golden sharpness began gathering across Heavenly Sword's body.
Even the Earthly Chief Star had to retreat from Heavenly Sword's cutting aura.
A moment later, Heavenly Sword vanished from where he stood.
Everyone saw a flash of gold. When they looked again, an illusory greatsword over ten meters long had appeared in the sky, blazing with brilliant white light.
The greatsword shot straight toward the vortex in the sky.
When the golden greatsword struck the five-element feng shui barrier, it stalled for only a moment before plunging through.
A five-colored hole appeared where the feng shui barrier had been breached.
At first glance, it looked as though an invisible giant had driven a golden greatsword through the heavens!
The sight left everyone dazzled.
Whether it was the Earthly Chief Star and the others at the foot of the mountain or the ordinary people below, who could only watch the black veins spreading across their chests, everyone placed their hopes in that sword.
It seemed that single strike could save the world!
But when an invisible ripple absorbed every last trace of the sword's light, without so much as disturbing the swirling black clouds, the light faded from the eyes of the ordinary people below.
They knelt on the ground, watching black veins spread across their own chests and black smoke pour from the seven orifices of those beside them, powerless to resist.
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