Leveraging her formidable Soul Power as a Level 97 Titled Douluo, Fei Yan (Crimson Nightmare) forcibly controlled a massive Trampler and over a hundred Honkai Beasts using countless tough strands of Soul Power, like manipulating actual puppets on strings.
At this moment, she unhesitatingly threw these cold war machines forward as one-time shields, positioning them wholesale between Huo Yuhao's group and the devastating sword pillar.
The next moment, Siegfried's all-consuming final strike—that magnificent twilight-colored sword pillar—slammed down.
"BOOOM—!!!!!"
The deafening explosion was like the wail of a shattered sky.
A terrifying energy shockwave suddenly spread in a circle. The entire ground of Mingdu shuddered and cracked violently, as if hit by the fiercest earthquake.
Looking from the city's outskirts, a blinding "sun" that was impossible to look at directly suddenly rose in the center of Mingdu. The searing light instantly devoured everything in that area, causing everyone miles away to instinctively clamp their eyes shut, tears streaming down their faces.
The twilight sword pillar itself was wrapped in a crushing torrent of sword energy, striking the earth like the whip of a divine judgment.
Everything in its path, be it sturdy houses, broad streets, or deeply buried foundations, was instantly vaporized, decomposed, and reduced to nothingness.
A huge, scorched trench, dozens of meters wide, bottomless, and kilometers long, was forcibly carved out, like an ugly, never-healing scar etched onto Mingdu's chest.
All Antimatter Honkai Beasts that were unfortunately caught in its path were instantly annihilated, disappearing like snow under the sun, before they could even let out a cry of agony.
This world-shattering, apocalypse-like strike instantly swept across the entire battlefield, drawing the gaze of every being within Mingdu.
Whether it was the Servants engaged in fierce combat, the Soul Tool Engineers and commoners struggling for survival in the ruins, or even the retreating forces of various factions, they all stopped in unison, looking back in horror at the source of the light and destruction.
At this very moment, even Celenova, the Lord of Destruction who was coldly manipulating the overall situation from an alternate dimension, seemed to pierce through the spatial barriers with her icy gaze, truly focusing on this insignificant battlefield for the first time. The flash of destruction seemed to spark a minimal sliver of interest in her.
Almost simultaneously—
Another explosive roar came from high above.
"RUMBLE!"
A torrent of azure gale, like a furious dragon formed by the convergence of countless divine spears, violently pierced through the Doom Beast's indestructible, massive body.
Fei Xiao's Divine Emissary, 'Flying Yellow,' let out a sky-shattering roar. Its giant maw opened, containing the power to tear stars apart, and forcibly ripped off the Doom Beast's huge, hardened dragon claw at the root.
"AAAUUUGH—!!!"
The Doom Beast let out a sharp, agonizing shriek of despair. Its massive body, hundreds of meters long, lost balance and tumbled from thousands of meters high, like a shot-down battleship.
Its body violently rubbed against the atmosphere, quickly bursting into fierce flames, transforming into an enormous burning meteor, trailing a long black smoke, and hurtling toward the already scarred Mingdu below with suffocating air pressure.
The remaining buildings in its trajectory were simply brushed by the terrifying wind pressure and collapsed and shattered like building blocks.
Fei Xiao's white hair whipped wildly in the surging airflow. She stood firmly in the void, not even turning to look at the falling behemoth.
Her gaze pierced the distance, landing precisely on the area shrouded in twilight light and destructive energy. A barely noticeable hint of regret flashed across her heroic face as she softly whispered:
"What a pity... A truly valiant warrior, denied a proper sight."
From that final, resolute, all-consuming flash of sword light, she clearly sensed the hero's final brilliant bloom and indomitable will before their demise.
However, in the very next instant.
"Hmm?"
Fei Xiao suddenly frowned slightly, a look of confusion crossing her face.
Her extremely keen senses detected that in another part of the battlefield, the two powerful auras that had been clashing fiercely and uncompromisingly—the brilliant thunderous might of the Cloud Knight General Jing Yuan and the raging life energy of the Abomination of Abundance,Hoolay—had eerily and without warning simultaneously ceased.
It wasn't that one side overwhelmed the other to end the battle, nor was it a mutually devastating outcome. It was more like they had encountered some sudden change that forced them to stop immediately.
A deadly duel between an Astral Express General and a powerful Borisin war-chief would never end so abruptly and peacefully.
Unless something utterly unexpected had occurred.
In the thousandth of a second that Fei Xiao's mind was slightly unsettled by Siegfried's resolute final strike—
Abnormality suddenly arose above the void!
A single point of extreme, frigid starlight flickered without warning, like the last star extinguished at the end of the universe.
Immediately after, that point of starlight violently swelled. A pitch-black ring, seemingly capable of devouring all light, subtly emerged from the void, silently unfolding directly above Fei Xiao.
The interior of the ring was not empty; the sight was terrifying—a "virtual star" simulated from pure energy was collapsing and compressing at an unscientific speed.
An unimaginably vast amount of energy was instantly condensed to the extreme, then burst out violently. The light of a star's destruction, which should have been enough to illuminate several star systems, was fiercely restrained and focused by the eerie black ring, ultimately forming a golden-white energy torrent over ten meters in diameter, condensed to a suffocating degree.
"Not good!"
The alarm bells exploded violently in Fei Xiao's mind. Her superhuman battle instinct caused her to sharply turn her head almost the instant the attack solidified.
But what met her eyes was no longer the prelude to an ambush, but destruction itself descending.
That terrifying pulse ray, which condensed the power of a collapsing star, hurtled down straight and mercilessly from the center of the dense cloud vortex, like the Spear of Judgment thrown by God.
Its speed transcended thought, and its light annihilated the sun and moon.
"BOOOM—!!!!!!!!!!"
The beam precisely struck, no, 'pierced' the earth.
An indescribable thunderous roar was like the wail of the entire world.
First, an extremely dazzling ball of light, as if a second sun was born, soared up. Immediately after, a massive, mushroom-shaped nuclear explosion cloud, symbolizing absolute destruction, rose slowly like a giant hand from hell, instantly swelling thousands of meters high, covering the sky and the sun.
The devastating energy shockwave spread in a perfect circle, wildly expanding and crushing everything in its path at a terrifying speed exceeding the speed of sound.
Nearly one-third of Mingdu's area—whether it was still-standing buildings, intertwined streets, or living beings engaged in battle—was as fragile as a sandcastle before this destructive torrent.
Countless Honkai Beasts, Soul Masters, and commoners, who couldn't react in time, were instantly vaporized by the extreme heat and torn into their most fundamental particles by the shockwave, utterly annihilated.
The fierce winds generated by the explosion, like billions of frantic giant beasts, continuously trampled and tore at the remaining parts of the colossal city.
Whether they were Servants or Honkai Beasts engaged in fierce fighting, they were all caught off guard by this sudden, Heaven-sent attack. They could only frantically push their power, firmly rooting themselves in place to resist the turbulent, wind-pressure storm that was capable of tearing steel into shreds.
Lu Jingming looked up at the scene of the apocalypse-like event in the distance, his mouth twitching uncontrollably.
To assassinate Fei Xiao, the Lord of Destruction, Celenova, had not hesitated to personally strike and launch this ambush.
The vast majority of this strike's power was clearly borne head-on by Fei Xiao, yet the mere dissipated aftermath almost completely wiped Mingdu off the map.
"If that strike had been aimed at the center of Mingdu..."
Lu Jingming secretly gasped. He had no doubt that if Celenova had intended it, this number one great city on the continent, along with its millions of inhabitants, would have been reduced to a historical footnote in the very next second.
This was the might of the Lord of Destruction, wielding "Destruction"!
Even though Celenova had transitioned from the Path of Harmony, her control over destruction and annihilation had long been ingrained in her very being.
"Damn it! Is this... has a Deity personally taken action!?"
In the distant ruins, Xuan Zi released thick, earthy-yellow Soul Power, struggling to resist the continuous shockwave storm. The defensive aura on his body flickered precariously, almost being torn apart by the terrifying wind pressure.
He had lived for nearly two hundred years, experiencing many tribulations, yet he had never felt such pure, such overbearing, such despairing power.
This had completely exceeded his understanding of the word "power," even overturning his entire worldview.
This was not a Soul Skill or a Soul Tool; this was a divine punishment.
Fortunately, their area was not the center of the explosion; otherwise, with his cultivation as a Level 98 Super Douluo, he would probably have been reduced to dust.
The destructive impact lasted for several minutes before finally showing signs of subsiding.
When the dense dust and high-temperature steam that covered the sky and obscured everything slowly dispersed, all the survivors were speechless, utterly shaken by the final sight before them—
Nearly one-third of Mingdu had vanished.
In its place was a terrifying, bottomless abyss so vast it was impossible to see its end.
The edges of the abyss were glossy, mirror-like layers of rock that had been instantaneously melted and then cooled, reflecting an eerie sheen under the dim sky.
That ray of destruction, like a celestial sword from an outer domain, had left an eternal and hideous scar upon the land, telling the tale of absolute power's terror.
"Sister Fei Xiao!"
Princess Wei Na, who had retreated to the safe perimeter of Mingdu, was fortunately not directly hit by the explosion, yet her heart was ashen.
She had personally witnessed Fei Xiao being completely engulfed by that terrifying pulse ray. Her face was now deathly pale, and her voice trembled with uncontrollable fear and dread.
Fei Xiao was her greatest reliance, the last remaining beacon of hope for the Heaven Soul Empire in this rapidly changing Douluo Continent.
If Fei Xiao were to fall here...
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