The three-hundred-mile-wide neutron star plummeted toward Bullion Tower like a falling black moon.
The sheer gravitational force compressed the air into swirling violet plasma, tearing through the atmosphere at ten thousand miles per second.
Space groaned under the astronomical weight, bending starlight into dark gravitational rings around the descending sphere.
Across fifty light-years of space, three thousand great Dao Sects watched through regional observation arrays with bated breath.
Disciples of the Iron Sword Sect, the Cloud-Mist Sect, and hundreds of merchant guilds held their heads in terror.
“Sixty trillion tons of collapsed neutron-star matter!” Sect Master Tie Jian shouted into his communication array. “The kinetic force alone will vaporize the entire financial district! It will tear a hole straight through the planetary mantle!”
Beside him, Sect Master Han of the Cloud-Mist Sect rallied two thousand four hundred reformed sect masters.
“Link your spiritual meridians!” Han roared, his voice trembling with desperate courage. “Form the Grand Golden Karma Bulwark! Even if our bodies are pulverized into cosmic dust, we will buy three seconds for Chairman Lin to evacuate the children!”
