The five-hundred-foot spear of tightly packed souls and nether-star-fire plunged toward the combat sand like an iron asteroid falling from the upper air.
The air couldn’t displace fast enough. Sky friction ignited along the black-bone shaft. He erupted into a roaring sheath of white-hot friction fire that burned at over five thousand degrees! The blinding flare was so intense that the entire Conferred Megacity was lit up in harsh, bleaching daylight, casting razor-sharp shadows across the nine surrounding mountain peaks. The blast wave stripped the leftover roof tiles from the VIP suites, shattering the bronze viewing balconies into twisted metal ribbons.
Half a million spectators threw their arms over their faces. It screamed in agony as their robes began to scorch from radiant heat even three hundred paces away behind the barrier.
In the royal boxes, tributary kings dropped to their knees, furiously scribbling final wills upon torn silk handkerchiefs with trembling fingers. Ancient Nascent Soul grandmasters pulled their youngest students behind their backs, burning their own life essence to build temporary qi shields, even while knowing that a five-thousand-degree star-fire strike would melt their protective barriers in a heartbeat.
“TURN TO STEAM!” Crown Prince Yan Wuji roared, his demonic face tearing through the monster’s iron brow in a fury of madness. “LET THE ASHES OF YOUR MORTAL BODY SCATTER TO THE FOUR WINDS!”
