Boom—!!!
The Nine Heavens Star Dome seemed to have been torn open by a vicious scar.
Wusheng's exploded shell turned into hundreds of millions of crimson starfalls, mingling with severed Threads of Destiny and splashing a crazed tableau of destruction across the cold universe.
The vast power that had belonged to a divine Deputy Executor lost all restraint, becoming a terrifying torrent that swept through the Universe. Wherever it passed, space shattered inch by inch like glazed glass, and even starlight was ground into dust...
Yet, at the very center of this earth-shattering explosion,
where Wusheng's head had previously been, the rusty Iron Hook and the pitch-black jade ruyi remained suspended in place, wholly unaffected by the rushing torrent.
Higher still, the chessboard that blanketed the Star Dome, along with the hundreds of millions of threads descending from the Nine Heavens, remained equally frozen.
And farther away were Black Fiend, Evil Shadow, Jin Gui, Miao Qianyu...
Dozens of Deputy Executors, originally startled by the divine battle, now stood rigidly in the void like statues, all with eyes wide, their pupils reflecting the dazzling radiance beneath the dazzling Star Dome.
Absurd!
Absurd beyond anything seen before!
The trajectories of Fate had collided. Wusheng had victory in the bag, while the Formless Sky Demon was on the brink of death!
They had crossed the Nine Heavens to come here precisely to stop Wusheng and "rescue" the Formless Sky Demon.
Afterward, Ancient One Yi Xing, the god [Playwright], Ancient One Heaven's Mandate, and the god [Mind Nightmare] had acted in succession...
Yet in the end,
while the battle was at its fiercest, Wusheng, who had "victory in the bag," had simply... blown himself up!
Utter stillness! Utter motion!
The vicious scar ran through the Nine Heavens Star Dome, tearing open two utterly different