Another half hour passed. Suddenly, the crescent moon that had been hanging high in the sky streaked across the heavens and pinned itself in the center of the night sky. The crescent abruptly swelled, its shadowed portions revealing themselves, and a full moon bulged as it poured down its radiance. The night sky, once ablaze with countless stars, now showed not a single star!
The moonlight was so pure and bright that everything within tens of thousands of miles around the Chidi River shone like broad daylight. In but a moment, the full moon seemed to shatter into tens of thousands of fragments. Even the moonlight filling the sky was split apart, forming pillars of light across the night sky. At this moment, even the night seemed unable to envelop the Chidi River, becoming streaks of darkness wedged between the pillars of light!
Boom... A muffled blast rang out from the horizon, yet it shook the hearts of every human and demon. Heaven and earth trembled beneath the roar. As though a watermelon had been split open, the stars in the night sky, like seeds within its flesh, appeared while flashing black radiance. Though it was black light, it could be seen clearly in the dark night. Yet as Xiao Hua's eyes shifted, that black turned crimson. After the crimson came six distinct colors—orange, yellow, green, cyan, blue, and violet—before each starlight finally transformed into a star halo, revealing limpid, milky-white starlight!
Buzz, buzz, buzz... The space above the Chidi River trembled for ten thousand miles. The river water, which had previously seemed to be pinned down by an enormous hand, slowly split apart. In only a few breaths, the Chidi River, seemingly boundless and bottomless, was forcibly cleaved in two. Yet the severed current did not surge high into