The next second.
Ten nuclear warheads struck the Primordial Illusion Array protecting the Langya Blessed Land with perfect accuracy.
There was no earth-shaking clash of spells, no dazzling interplay of array patterns.
Only absolute violence.
Crack!
The Primordial Illusion Array, said to withstand an all-out strike from a peak Nascent Soul cultivator, failed to last even a tenth of a second. It shattered like fragile glass.
Then.
A burst of light ten thousand times brighter than the sun erupted silently over the East China Sea!
The extreme heat instantly soared to tens of millions of degrees!
The moment the seawater touched that heat, it evaporated into nothing, exposing the dry bedrock beneath.
The entire island housing the Langya Blessed Land, along with its palaces, spirit herbs, arrays, and low-ranking disciples who had yet to react.
Within that light, there were no screams, no struggles.
They simply vaporized.
BOOOOM!!!
The delayed explosion seemed to tear the entire world apart.
An immense mushroom cloud rose into the air, soaring a hundred thousand meters high and staining the sky over the entire stretch of sea a dark crimson.
The terrifying shock wave raised a tsunami hundreds of meters high, sending a wall of water surging wildly in every direction.
A hundred kilometers away.
Aboard the silver flying boat.
Chen Lin had prepared in advance, pushing the flying boat's defensive barrier to its limit.
Even so, when the overwhelming shock wave swept past with radiation-laden winds, the flying boat rocked violently, giving off teeth-grating creaks.
Yun Sheng and Changqingzi clung to the gunwale, their legs going weak despite themselves.
They stared wide-eyed at the world-destroying mushroom cloud ahead, their minds utterly blank.
"What... what kind of spell is that?!"
Changqingzi dropped to his knees on the deck with a thud, trembling from head