The pillar of light, condensed from eternal obsession and a momentary blaze, plunged silently into the Ancient Void Corpse's core like the most precise scalpel in the universe.
There was no earth-shattering explosion, no energy storm sweeping across the stars. There was only an ultimate, conceptual "purification" and "return to nothingness."
With that core as its origin, the Void Corpse's immense dark-gold body, vast enough to inspire despair, was like a red-hot iron cast into absolute zero, instantly losing the very foundation of its "existence."
The chains of laws composing its body, representing the External Dao Nirvana Origin, snapped and crumbled inch by inch.
The two scarlet glows that symbolized its desire for destruction flickered like dying candles in the wind, dimmed, and finally went out completely.
The terrifying pressure that had stirred the Nirvana Power of the entire ancient continent into resonance rapidly dissipated like a receding tide.
In merely a few breaths, that world-ending entity that had brought prophecies of doom to countless worlds turned into the most primordial nothingness, vanishing completely into the depths of the Soul Burial Rift Valley.
All that remained were several broken sealing chains, slowly dissolving into specks of silver light, and an empty, deathly silent void that seemed to have cast off an eternal burden.
Above the Ancient Sunken Continent, the dusky yellow and dark-red canopy that had shrouded it for untold ages was slowly torn open by an invisible hand.
The murky haze of Nirvana began to disperse, and long-lost, cold yet pure starlight pierced through with difficulty, yet incomparable resolve.
It spilled down like sweet rain upon this scarred, lifeless land.
Wherever the starlight reached, the twisted mosses and insects that survived by devouring Nirvana let out faint cries as their bodies began to melt away.
Meanwhile, ancient plant seeds