Amid heated discussion among the spectators on the Forum, the battle at the village entrance entered its final stages.
In the sky, the final clash between the demigods began.
All the restrained golden light of rules within the Sword of Civilization in Tu Hu's hands erupted at once, becoming a golden pillar connecting heaven and earth. Gripping the sword in both hands, he raised it overhead. Around the blade, the Velvet Spirit Tribe's story replayed from its beginning, ultimately condensing into sword momentum of utmost purity, which he brought crashing down upon the airspace occupied by Wan Ji and Ji Lie.
This strike seemed intent on erasing the heavens and everything within them.
Facing this blow, the scenes in Wan Ji's left and right eyes merged completely, and the rise and fall of civilizations unfurled behind it in an apocalyptic panorama.
It raised both hands, rapidly forming a black-and-red vortex imbued with the power of rules and composed of countless shattered civilization phantoms.
Rather than dodge, it pushed this civilization-devouring vortex straight toward the descending golden pillar.
Ji Lie followed with a piercing shriek that carried across the battlefield, every luminous vein on its body blazing brightly.
Its face, covered in compound eyes, clearly reflected Tu Hu's sword light and Wan Ji's vortex.
The next instant, its figure vanished entirely, "compressing" its existence into an exceedingly condensed purple-black thread. Ignoring spatial barriers, this thread pierced toward both the golden pillar's flank and the black-and-red vortex's core at a speed akin to Space Jump.
In its wake, it left only a rift of void where space had been cut away.
Boom!
The thunderous collision instantly drowned out every sound on the battlefield.
Three destructive powers representing demigods exploded at their meeting point overhead.
An ever-expanding sphere of destructive light, mingling golden