433: Dead silence and emptiness!

Clang!!!

A deafening explosion, like thunder from the Nine Heavens, struck the ravaged earth, its aftershocks raging and humming through the shattered space.

The grotesque, pale, and desolate scar on Su Han’s back armor, resembling some malevolent totem, fiercely seared his nerves.

A tremendous impact permeated his body, causing him to slide backward over ten feet, plowing the ground with his legs, as shattered rocks burst and scattered beneath his feet.

Each wave of intense pain was like a steel awl piercing his bone marrow; blood, like a squeezed sponge, gushed from his mouth and wounds, staining the scorched ground before him and the dark Calamity Ash Crystal Armor covering his body.

After enduring a destructive strike, the Crystal Armor’s glow had visibly dimmed, and fine cracks, like a spiderweb, spread across its translucent, dark-red surface.

But he held on!

The cost was immense, but he ultimately withstood those three fatal Sword Qi strikes!

“Cough… Pfft!”

Another mouthful of blood mixed with fragments of internal organs spurted out, and Su Han abruptly knelt on one knee, slamming a hand onto the scorching ground to support his tottering body.

He lifted his bowed head, and the crazily burning will in his eyes not only hadn't extinguished but, like refined profound iron, became even purer and more intense!

His gaze was fixed on the figure majestically suspended in the Void Realm before him, with silver hair like a waterfall—the Sword Bearer of the Desolation Star River!

“Calamity Fire Burning Heart… Meridians Turning to Ash?”

The silver-haired man’s voice, as cold as ten thousand years of ice, for the first time carried a hint of genuine surprise.

His indifferent eyes, seemingly containing the end of the Universe, reflected the raging, dark-red sea of Calamity Flames below.

The earth cracked, lava surged, and countless enraged fire Dragons, formed from pure destructive energy, still writhed and roared unwillingly, attempting to chase after the long-dissipated Sword Qi.

The man slightly tilted his head, as if re-evaluating Su Han.

“Destroying your own Meridians, igniting your soul, detonating the Earth Vein’s primal Qi… Using such an extreme method, almost completely severing your future vitality, to gain momentary power to resist ‘Nether Desolation’… The struggle of an insect, yet it possesses a bit more tenacity than expected.”

The pale light sword in his hand slowly rose, its dormant glow once again flowing across the blade, as if countless stars within it dimmed, extinguished, and returned to nothingness.

“What a pity.”

“This sea of lingering flames, born from burning yourself and the Earth Veins… doesn’t even count as an illusionary spark.”

The moment his words fell, the silver-haired man moved.

His figure abruptly twisted, blurred, and vanished from its original spot!

It wasn't an afterimage left by high-speed movement, but rather a disregard for spatial distance, like teleportation.

In the next instant, he had already appeared in the Void Realm to Su Han’s upper left—less than five feet from the edge of that churning sea of Calamity Flames!

“Buzz—!”

There was no grand display; only the sword edge cut a minuscule yet instantly mirror-smooth arc through the air, creating a crack.

“Deathly Silence · Void Trace!”

A dark sword trace, thinner, more condensed, and deeper than any before, seemingly composed of pure “nothingness,” silently slashed down!

This sword trace, unlike the previous pale sword light, did not carry a strong sense of annihilation; it was more restrained, more lethal!

Wherever it passed, space seemed to be erased by a rubber, leaving an eternal, void, “blank” that even light could not penetrate!

It directly cut into the still-unsettled Calamity Flame Dragons!

The imagined violent energy collision did not occur.

That void trace, like the most precise surgical knife, or the most merciless ultimate eraser!

The dark-red Calamity Flames it touched, no matter how violent or condensed, instantly lost all their activity and energy fluctuations.

They were not nullified, not defeated, but… their concept of existence was “deleted”!