“DETONATING IN THREE... TWO...”
Two miles above the Red-Sand Wastes, the ten-mile-tall Planetary Spirit-Draining Nail hung suspended in the sky like an angry purple sun.
Even though it had been yanked clear of the fifty-mile shaft so it could no longer crack the planet’s core, the self-destruct warhead at the top of the Nail held enough compressed Upper-Realm Blood-Thunder and stolen World-Origin Qi to vaporize every mountain and city within five hundred miles!
Down on the pulling tracks around Dry-Well Metropolis, five hundred thousand thirty-foot Frost-Giants instinctive dropped flat onto their bellies and covered their heads with their giant yellow hard-hats.
“DUCK! EVERYBODY UNDER THE BUSES!” White-Tiger Warlord Hu Ba roared, diving headfirst under the chassis of Double-Decker Armored Spirit-Bus #1 while trying to pull his long striped tail in after him.
In the Eastern Canal, three million Whale-Sharks and Kraken Sea-King Mo Ba plunged underwater and held their breath, while the Four Former Immortal Sect Ancestors crawled under Old Guo’s iron barbecue grill and hugged each other in a trembling ball.
“We’re doomed! That’s a Rank 7 Upper-Realm Annihilation Core!” Ancestor Heaven-Lock of the Heavenly-Lock Sect shrieked, squeezing his eyes shut. “Even in the open sky, the shockwave will blow all the soup pots to the moon!”
