457: Collapse!

The horrific state of the corpse star giant’s chest was like a blasphemous fresco ignited by holy fire.

Surging platinum flames penetrated the spiderweb-like cracks in its crystal armor, igniting and purifying all the wriggling corrupted tissues and viscous decaying energy.

Each internal explosion was accompanied by crystal armor fragments mixed with charred, defiled matter violently spewing outwards, like a reverse, inside-out shower of holy meteors.

“Ooooh roooar roooar roooar—!!!”

That roar was no longer a mere bellow, but a high-frequency, distorted scream of billions of malevolent wills at the moment of true death.

This sound wave was no longer invisible; it even tore through space, with visibly ink-black fluctuations surging out from the giant’s mouth, the wound on its chest, and even the crevices of the crystal clusters all over its body, carrying a strong destructive impulse and exploding outwards in a ring!

“Boom—!!!”

The circular shockwave rubbed against space itself, emitting a thunderous roar as if the heavens and earth were collapsing.

This was not an energy collision, but the wailing of space itself.

Where the shockwave passed, the already fragmented corpse star ground below was like dough repeatedly pounded by an invisible giant hammer; the crust within a dozens of kilometers radius was instantly compressed, uplifted, and then completely disintegrated!

Countless massive corpse star fragments were hurled into the vacuum, tumbling, melting, and turning into nothingness amidst the dazzling platinum purifying flames and the defiled ink-black shockwaves.

Su Han bore the brunt of it!

The energy level of this dying strike transcended physics, striking directly at the Origin will.

His massive flame body was as if fiercely slapped by an invisible giant hand spanning the starry sky!

His resolute posture, originally pressing forward, instantly froze, then was violently thrown backwards by this rampant force!

“Ugh—!”

The pain was even more intense than the previous corrosive penetration!

The Netherworld Judgment Light Blade became illusory the moment its master was injured, almost being forcefully shaken out from the giant’s core wound.

The flames burning around Su Han suddenly dimmed, like a flickering candle in a gale, and large areas of the energy particles forming his body dissipated, trailing a scorching and fragmented wake behind him.

More fatal was the impact from the will level.

Contained within that shockwave was a vast, suffocating torrent of resentment and malicious curses from countless remnant star Souls as they were finally purified and annihilated.

It ignored physical defenses, directly scouring Su Han’s burning Primordial Spirit.

A cold, viscous negative emotion, like a poisonous snake, frantically drilled into his mind, attempting to freeze his Battle Intent, dismantle his will, and assimilate his purity!

The massive corrosive wound on his side abdomen seemed to be an ignited fuse; the corpse star power and this resentful curse attacked him from both inside and out, the pain like ten thousand red-hot steel needles simultaneously piercing his Soul!

However—

“Roar!”

Responding to this world-ending impact was an even more violent, more resolute roar from Su Han!

This roar was not a cry of collapse, but a battle cry, using his last shred of willpower to forcibly break free from the quagmire of mental pollution!

His almost dissipated fiery eyes, after a thousandth of a second of scattering, suddenly re-coalesced!

Deep within his golden pupils, it was as if two supernovae, compressed to their limit, were about to explode!

That light was no longer merely burning, but shattering!

It was him transforming his Soul, his will, and even the Foundation of his existence into one last flawless edge!

“Let’s… burn out together!!!”

With this final declaration, the Netherworld Judgment Light Blade, flickering unstably from the shockwave, erupted!

It was not an expansion of energy, but an internalization!

It was a collapse!

It was a condensation!

The billions of energies and billions of Law threads that formed the colossal light blade instantly coiled back and compressed wildly!

They were no longer scattered platinum light rays, but had collapsed into a single—line—that could not be directly seen with the naked eye, forged purely from the Origin of “incineration” and “judgment”!

A line as thin as a hair, yet containing the concept of destroying galaxies and reshaping Chaos!

This fine line froze time! The moment it appeared, the destructive shockwave sweeping in seemed to encounter an insurmountable absolute barrier, instantly freezing and solidifying at the leading edge of its contact with the line!

Even sound was swallowed, and the Universe fell into an absolute, silent dead stillness. (End of Chapter)