Above the capital of the Yulan Empire, winds and clouds churned backward across the heavens, and the Laws of the World trembled violently.
The clash between Shiheng and Kailin had already reached its ninth exchange.
The force of their collisions tore the void into countless pitch-black fragments. Violent torrents of Laws raged through the sky like roaring beasts. If that destructive aftermath were allowed to pour down, the entire bustling capital would turn to dust in an instant, and not one of its hundreds of millions of inhabitants would survive.
At that critical moment, divine light suddenly blazed in Kailin's eyes.
With her supreme God-level power, she laid a barrier as clear as glass across the sky, containing every last trace of the violent aftermath above the dome of heaven and sealing it away from the mortal world. Not the slightest harm came to the capital.
The unfathomable control of a God-level expert and her compassion for all living beings were fully revealed at that moment.
As the shock waves high above slowly subsided, Shiheng descended slowly from midair, finally landing steadily in the inn's square at the center of the capital.
A trickle of bright red blood seeped from the corner of his mouth and slid down his chin. The power within him surged chaotically, and his aura was extremely unstable. He was clearly exhausted.
Even so, his back remained as straight as a spear, like an ancient pine that had stood unchanged through the ages. His gaze was as sharp as a drawn blade. Even in defeat, he showed not the slightest dejection or weakness. Instead, he radiated an indomitable edge, growing fiercer with every battle and never yielding to setbacks.
Though he had lost this battle, his defeat was glorious!
At Half-Step to Godhood, he had forcibly