102: Running Away (Part 1)

After the Ring of Truth left, Xiang Yan did not let Nelson continue to sleep, but kept him awake at all times to cope with any possible changes.

Time passed in seeming tranquility.

One hundred years, for Xiang Yan, was nothing more than a snap of the fingers.

Suddenly, the sky fell and the earth cracked!

Without any warning, the entire world shook violently, as if an invisible giant hand was frantically shaking a massive rattle-drum.

Immediately after, the sky seemed to be torn apart by brute force, and a hideous black crack stretched across the horizon, as if a giant beast had opened its maw to devour everything.

A massive floating city slowly emerged from the crack.

Its size, blocking out the sun, hung overhead, awe-inspiring and exuding a suffocating sense of oppression.

However, this city, which should have been floating in the sky, now seemed to have lost its power, falling uncontrollably from the crack, carrying an Aura of destroying everything, and slamming fiercely toward the ground!

"Boom—!!!"

The deafening roar was like the prelude to the end of the world.

The impact point instantly erupted with blinding light, followed immediately by a terrifying shockwave that spread in all directions with the momentum of crushing dry weeds and smashing rotten wood.

The earth began to tremble violently. Centered on the impact point of the floating city, huge cracks spread out like a spider web. These cracks expanded rapidly, soon tearing the originally flat ground around it into countless jagged plates.

Some mountain ranges collapsed directly under this impact; rocks rolled down, kicking up dust that filled the sky, blocking out the sun so that sunlight could not penetrate.

Seismic waves propagated into the distance. Wherever they passed, rivers diverted, and the water in lakes was stirred to overflow the banks, forming surging floods that submerged nearby plains and forests.

The spreading shockwave, carrying endless destructive power, razed everything in its path to the ground.

Ancient trees reaching for the sky were uprooted, hard rocks were ground into powder, and the air was filled with a nauseating smell of dust and burnt matter.

The immense mass of the floating city even distorted the surrounding space.

Small creatures and objects were attracted by its powerful gravity, flying desperately toward the direction of the fall, and were completely crushed the moment they made contact, turning into a puddle of blood and mud.

The air was violently compressed, forming a terrifying hurricane carrying sand and debris, like countless sharp blades, mercilessly cutting through all life on the ground.

Animals let out desperate wails and fled in all directions.

Birds circled in the sky in panic, letting out shrill cries.

Weak creatures were either swallowed by cracks, crushed to death by rolling boulders, or swept into the air by the gale, eventually being smashed to pieces.

However, this was just the beginning.

Before the aftermath of the floating city's fall had subsided, a giant snake head that made people despair poked out from the crack that had torn the sky.

It was a giant snake whose size was comparable to a small mountain range; even when coiled up, it was only a circle smaller than the floating city.

Its entire body was covered in grayish scales, each one like a heavy metal plate, covered with pale white patterns, exuding a suffocating Aura of decay.

The moment the Gray Snake appeared, the entire world emitted strong malice and repulsion toward it. It was a tangible hostility that even an outsider like Xiang Yan could clearly feel.

At the same time, a stream of information flooded into Nelson's consciousness like a tide.

It was the order of the world will—do everything possible to intercept this Gray Snake!

Immediately afterward, the energy within the world began to gather frantically.

Countless streams of colorful energy, like surging rivers, intertwined and entangled in the air, forming huge and complex Magic Circles.

The moment the Magic Circles formed, they erupted with terrifying beams of light, like countless sharp swords, slamming fiercely toward the Gray Snake.

Just then, Nelson's voice sounded in Xiang Yan's mind, with a trace of doubt and a trace of anticipation: "My Lord, should I... take action?"

"Obey Him for now, let Him relax His vigilance," Xiang Yan's voice sounded in Nelson's mind, with a hint of playful amusement, "so that I can smoothly activate my backup plan."

Upon hearing this, Nelson understood in his heart.

He took a deep breath, and the hesitation that had still been there instantly became firm.

As a loyal Believer of Xiang Yan, he did not doubt any of Xiang Yan's decisions.

"I will obey my Lord's command!" Nelson responded in his heart.

The next moment, Nelson joined the encirclement of the giant snake.

At the same time, Xiang Yan's figure disappeared from where he was, galloping toward the sealed island.

Soon, Xiang Yan arrived at the sea area near the island.

He hovered in mid-air, overlooking the turbulent sea below.

Black mist surged from his body, condensing into a thick arm, reaching into the seabed like lightning.

The arm moved rapidly through the seawater, stirring up currents.

A moment later, the arm pulled violently, grabbing a strange thing from the seabed.

It was a creature that looked like both a fish and a human.

Its body was covered in fine scales, shimmering with a faint luster in the dim seawater.

But its silhouette was similar to a human's, only its limbs were longer and thinner, with sharp bone spurs at the joints.

On this strange guy's body, layers of Restrictions emitting faint light were wrapped around it, binding it firmly.

Xiang Yan reached out his hand, and his fingertips gently brushed over those Restrictions.

With his movements, the Restrictions melted like ice and snow. Not long after the Restrictions were removed, this strange guy slowly woke up.

He slowly opened his eyes and looked around in confusion. When he saw that the person in front of him was Xiang Yan, his eyes were instantly filled with flames of anger.

"Xiang Yan! You despicable and shameless bastard! How dare you..." His hoarse voice was filled with venom, like an evil ghost from Hell, making one's hair stand on end.

Xiang Yan faced the strange guy's insults without the slightest fluctuation on his face.

He raised his hand and waved expressionlessly. An invisible force instantly hit the strange guy's throat. His vocal cords were destroyed in an instant, and the hoarse cursing stopped abruptly, leaving only the sound of faint bubbles.

Xiang Yan ignored this guy who had lost his vocal cords and turned his gaze to the island Seal not far away.

A mysterious rune flew from his fingertips and quickly imprinted onto the Seal. The Seal gradually loosened, its light began to dim, until it completely disappeared.

The moment the Seal was unlocked, Xiang Yan manipulated the black arm to wave like lightning, throwing the strange guy into the Magic Circle like trash.

The guy struggled a few times in the Magic Circle, but the power of the Magic Circle instantly suppressed him. His body gradually sank into the light of the Magic Circle and finally disappeared.

Xiang Yan did not stop; his hands moved like phantoms, quickly filling in the remaining parts of the Magic Circle.

The light of the Magic Circle surged instantly, and a terrifying power of celestial phenomena surged from the center of the Magic Circle, spreading in all directions like a tide.

This power was so great that it instantly changed the surrounding celestial phenomena. The white clouds in the sky were instantly dyed ink-black, and a gale whistled past, carrying a heart-palpitating power.

This power of celestial phenomena quickly spread to the entire world, attracting everyone's attention.

Whether it was the world will, the five Your Highnesses, or the many Magical Girls and that giant snake, they all involuntarily looked toward the location of the Magic Circle.

Just at the moment when everyone's attention was drawn, suddenly, a shout of "Do it" like a great bell rang through the world.

Before anyone could react, Nelson danced his hands rapidly, materializing his own authority.

Nelson threw his materialized authority into the ritual Magic Circle without hesitation, and then immediately severed all connections between himself and the authority.

The cutting of the connection to the authority brought pain like the tearing of his Soul, but he gritted his teeth and did not let out a single moan.

At the moment of severing the connection, Nelson turned into a stream of light and crashed into Xiang Yan's body.

The moment Nelson returned to Xiang Yan's body, Xiang Yan's voice sounded again.

His mouth was like a machine gun, chanting a prayer that only existences like the world will could understand at a speed that could be called ghostly: "Great Main Universe, your child prays for you to cast your gaze down, to judge the replacement of the Dao; for this, your child is willing to sacrifice a portion of the world's authority to call for your arrival!"

The moment the prayer ended, Nelson's materialized authority disappeared completely, and along with it, his territory also disappeared.

The original two billion square kilometers of land turned into a void, and the surrounding space also seemed to have been drained of color, turning into a turbid area of indistinguishable colors, suffocating enough to make people unable to breathe. Only the ritual Magic Circle remained shining, exuding an eerie light.

And the world also let out a mournful cry at this moment, as if someone had dug out its flesh, so shrill that it was heartbreaking.

Just at the moment when Xiang Yan finished his prayer, the world trembled, and all sounds ceased.

A great will, beyond understanding and indescribable, pierced through all obstacles and suddenly descended!

The moment that vast and boundless will descended, no matter who it was, they inexplicably knew its identity—the great will of the main universe!