As his words fell.
The entire blood-red world.
First fell silent.
Then.
BOOM!!!
It was as though two stars had slammed into each other in the deepest reaches of the sea of consciousness.
The towering throne behind the Bloodslayer Queen shattered with a thunderous crash.
It had not been destroyed.
Instead, a far more overbearing rule had forcibly crushed it.
Crack.
Crack.
Countless fissures appeared across the throne's surface.
The sea of blood surged into waves billions of feet high.
For the first time, the queen truly cast aside her disdain.
She slowly straightened.
Her scarlet imperial eyes fixed on Qi Wu.
After a long while.
A smile curled her lips.
"Interesting."
"Far too interesting."
"No wonder."
"No wonder that old fossil was willing to stake the hopes of the entire Holy Blood clan on you."
BOOM!
She gently raised her hand.
The entire Mindscape instantly went berserk.
The sea of blood surged backward into the heavens.
The sky became a blood-red vortex.
Countless ancient characters of divine script rose from the depths of the world.
Those characters.
Each represented the divinity of a mighty being.
And now.
They all gathered in her palm.
Forming a scarlet spear.
Countless ghostly images of gods appeared along its shaft.
As though it had once drunk the blood of every god.
"Young man."
"Did you know?"
"You aren't the first person to come here."
Qi Wu flexed his wrists.
And looked up.
"Oh?"
"There were others before me?"
The Bloodslayer Queen said slowly:
"Over the centuries."
"Countless people have come here to challenge me, hoping to annihilate me completely."
"Guess how they all ended up~"
With every sentence.
The sky darkened a little more.
Until finally.
The entire world turned completely scarlet.
The queen slowly raised the Divine Spear.
Pointing it straight at