A Hard-Won Victory

Chapter 28: A Hard-Won Victory. On the cosmic battlefield once shrouded in darkness, smoke filled the air, and the energy storms woven from light and darkness gradually subsided. The final confrontation between the World Alliance and the evil entity had been a heart-stopping cosmic epic, and after its baptism of blood and fire, the curtain had finally fallen. Under the Alliance's last furious barrage, the evil entity's immense body completely disintegrated. Its dark energy ebbed away like a retreating tide, and the terrifying aura that had once chilled hearts vanished like smoke on the wind. Yet the price of this victory had been devastating. The battlefield was strewn with shattered walls and ruins, while enormous meteor fragments floated overhead, exuding the breath of death. Warriors from every world lay sprawled across the ground, some with bodies torn apart, others corroded beyond recognition by dark power. A young disciple from the Spirit Void Continent still had his eyes open, his gaze filled with longing for victory and attachment to the world, but the light of life had already faded from his body. His hand tightly gripped his Spiritual Power Sword, as though even in his final moment, he had still been fighting bravely against the forces of evil. A psychic warrior from the Star Illusion World lay surrounded by a shattered psychic shield, exhaustion and pain etched across his face. To unleash that final, powerful psychic assault, he had spent every last ounce of his strength. His soul had also suffered grievous wounds in battle, and he had ultimately fallen on this battlefield, at once unfamiliar and familiar. The Mechanical World's mechanical legions had suffered even greater losses. Many gigantic mechanical creatures had been destroyed by the evil entity's dark power and reduced to heaps of scrap metal. Their wreckage lay