Sea of Clouds World.
There were no clouds left.
A thunderous roar, like a raging flood, echoed through the cracked sky without end. Yet it was not thunder, but the explosive blasts produced by objects colliding at high speed.
Crack!
Another hair-thin line streaked across the sky and halted before a towering mountain.
Bang!
The entire mountain was hurled into the air like a meteor, smashing heavily backward. The aura between heaven and earth was dragged along by His massive body, churning violently and grinding against the fractured space, producing a shrill, piercing wail, as though countless iron wires were scraping glass at once.
Leviathan stood in the void, dragging his massive hammer as he looked down upon the earth.
A fifth and sixth arm sprouted beneath Taiyi's ribs. Struggling, he propped himself up so he would not fall too disgracefully.
People always give up when they should have held on just a little longer.
After Zheng Qing was sent flying by Leviathan's hammer once again, this sentence surfaced in his muddled mind. It seemed to be something his teacher had told him long, long ago, when he had been learning to draw talismans.
Whenever you want to give up, think about why you started... Push yourself a little harder.
Why had he started?
To be tossed around like a punching bag?
Bang!
As if echoing that thought, a similar impact sounded from outside the altar. The delicate-looking youth curled into a ball and shot through the white mist at tremendous speed, shattering the slowly drifting fog within the stone cavern. It took a long time for the mist to settle again.
The Azure Strange Dragon that R'lyeh had transformed into cheered. With a flick of its tail, it vanished from where it stood and reappeared where Leviathan's incarnation was