Crash! Bang, bang, bang...
Even though the Black Flame Stone giant was like an impregnable mountain, it still could not withstand the impact of that force. In an instant, it was torn into countless chunks of rubble.
As innumerable stone fragments flew in all directions, they struck the cultivator's body. The defenses over his body flashed wildly with streaks of light.
In that instant, his true form rapidly shrank and turned human-shaped to reduce the area exposed to attack. As his body kept retreating, mouthful after mouthful of blood spilled from his lips, the crimson sight equally shocking.
A mid-stage Void Refinement Realm cultivator's self-destruction was so powerful that, even with those Black Flame Stones blocking it, the layers of defense he had erected collapsed one after another.
At this moment, it was not merely the companion stones he had refined that scattered everywhere after shattering. Centered on the self-destruction of that Devil Emperor, every mountain rock in the surrounding area was blasted into the sky.
Boom, boom, boom... Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh...
Only after this Red-Eyed Flame-Horn Beast cultivator had retreated several hundred zhang did the stone fragments shooting toward him finally lessen considerably.
The gravity here was simply too strong. Even if a Devil Emperor-level cultivator self-destructed with such terrifying power, its final range only covered a little over two hundred zhang. Beyond that, it was mostly offset by the omnipresent gravity.
Yet even after being weakened so greatly, the Red-Eyed Flame-Horn Beast cultivator continued to cough blood as he retreated. Bloody holes appeared across his chest, legs, and arms.
Those were caused by the fragments he had failed to evade, which either pierced through him or directly embedded themselves in his body. Even though he was a body-refining cultivator with a powerful physique, he could not withstand such