Wrapped in cosmic fragments, it possessed the exact same eerie fluctuations as the Zero Degree Crystal.
But when that black outer shell shattered, the energy blooming within...
Far surpassed the Zero Degree Crystal!
And what terrified Gateskell most was that crimson orb of light...
It was actually a living being!
A terrifying life-form that made even Saint Luo's soul tremble.
Was that a deity born from the source of the universe?
Thump, thump-thump.
The sound, like a beating heart, grew denser and denser.
At the center of the chessboard, at the Tianyuan position, the crimson orb's contractions and expansions accelerated.
To everyone's ears, it sounded as though countless drumsticks were pounding heavily.
In the end, the sky seemed to erupt with countless thunderclaps.
A gentle breeze swept across the massive battlefield.
"The wind's rising..."
Someone stretched out a hand, feeling the airflow brush across their palm, and muttered.
"But why is there wind?"
The question naturally surfaced in everyone's hearts.
"That's... Cosmic wind!"
Someone cried out in horror.
The hundred-meter black fissure that had burst open suddenly tore wider.
Air currents mixed with countless battlefield wreckages and surged violently into it.
The instant the wreckage of the locust warships touched that black fissure... it was ground entirely into powder!
The Space Fissure was madly devouring everything.
Yet before everyone's eyes, when an inconspicuous mech wreckage was sucked upward...
It strangely came to a stop just before plunging into the black fissure.
Countless gazes fixed on it clearly saw what the wreckage looked like...
Half its back had been blown away.
Not a single intact piece of armor remained on its body.
Exposed metal muscles made it resemble a dissected corpse.
Its extinguished eyes...
That was the demon god who had once stunned half the starry sky with a single