Light pierced through the blood-red fog, spilling across the Evil Horn Ancestral Land and illuminating this unfamiliar starry sky.
At the same time, it was reflected in Xie Sen's eyes as he fled while looking back.
"Light?"
His pupils abruptly contracted to pinpoints.
Xie Sen's racing figure suddenly halted. He no longer twisted his neck to look back, but turned around completely, staring blankly at the light blooming at the center of the blood-red haze.
"Sunlight!!!"
The two words burst from his lips. His body began trembling uncontrollably as endless terror surged from the depths of his soul.
Yet Xie Sen's pale face was filled only with confusion!
He did not know why he had immediately identified it as "sunlight."
Nor did he understand why his body was shaking so violently.
Was it merely because he feared death?
No, absolutely not!
If he simply feared death, he should have turned and continued his desperate flight.
Yet at this moment, the omnipresent terror seemed to have sealed off every path to survival, leaving him too afraid to move even a single step.
"What exactly... am I afraid of?!!!"
Xie Sen's lips trembled as he struggled to speak. The increasingly blazing light was reflected in his bewildered eyes...
A roar shook the void.
Hundreds of millions of dazzling rays intertwined into a blazing torrent, erupting from the rift spanning the starry sky. It surged and roared onward, washing over everything in its path.
Outside the rift, the Divine Sons of the eighteen races who stood closest all widened their eyes, and then...
There was no then.
They had no time to resist head-on, no time to turn and flee, not even time for the most basic fear to rise upon their faces.
Because their faces were already gone!
Beneath the all-illuminating sunlight,