The confident, savage grin on the Jade Great Radiance Church Heaven's Chosen's face froze instantly.
In its place came incredulous horror and bone-deep fear.
"No!"
He could clearly feel his Spirit Power draining rapidly, along with a fear born of the very instinct to survive.
He wanted to retreat, wanted to roar, only to discover that even his voice had been stripped away by that invisible force field.
The space around him clamped down like iron hoops, pinning him firmly in place.
He could not break free, could not retreat, could not even call for help.
He could only watch helplessly as that Black Sun of annihilation slowly approached.
Boom!!!
There was no deafening explosion, only an utterly muffled roar, as though it had come from an ancient heaven and earth.
The Black Sun slammed into the Jade Great Radiance Church prodigy.
Szzzz-
At the center of the collision, space visibly twisted and crumpled like a sheet of crushed paper being torn apart by that immense force.
Watching from outside the arena, even Lin Ke's eyes flickered with a trace of surprise at the sight.
From what he could sense,
the Black Sun Luo Ya was unleashing now was clearly far more powerful than when they had fought.
Clearly, he was not the only one who had been improving during this time.
Luo Ya and the others had been making progress too.
Meanwhile, in the arena,
the violent energy did not blast outward. Instead, the Black Sun devoured and compressed it madly, making that point of darkness ever deeper and more terrifying.
The few stray shock waves that escaped spread outward as distorted, transparent ripples.
Wherever they passed, the arena's protective dome, strong enough to withstand attacks from Nascent Soul Cultivators, fluctuated violently and let out a piercing hum under