At some unknown point, the very bottom of the Fifth Star Pillar had become densely covered in Ghouls, Abyss Jiaolong Insects, and Giant Maggot Birds, those nauseating creatures that had come from the Abyss.
Their bodies were twisted and ugly, giving off a foul stench that corroded space itself.
They continually battered the walls of the Fifth Star Pillar with their sharp claws and pus, starting at the very bottom and knocking loose the living beings compacted onto it, stripping them away little by little.
Every blow was accompanied by the faint crack of the pillar's surface, and every drop of pus left a deep scar of corrosion where it landed.
Likewise, on the Fourth Star Pillar, vast numbers of living beings from the "Fated White River" were also continually pounding and shouting.
Using their psychic power or some special mechanism, they freed the living beings compacted onto the star pillar little by little.
Those freed beings opened their eyes in bewilderment, as though newly born, before the power of the "Fated White River" guided them into the battlefield.
The scene resembled two towers containing all truths, which countless living beings flocked to explore and climb in a frenzy, seeking only a thread or wisp of those truths.
The nineteen figures of starlight standing atop the star pillars were the Star Pillar Realm Guardians, and they too began to act.
Some transformed into sky-piercing long blades, their edges spanning the void as they savagely tore apart the living beings surging up from below...
Others spread flawless wings like sacred angels, chanting ancient, far-reaching songs. Wherever those songs passed, all evil was purified and dispersed...
Still others transformed into colossal whales that reached the heavens, opening mouths large enough to swallow stars amid deep, far-reaching whale calls and sweeping vast numbers