The stagnant wind blew once again, changing the cloudscape.
Before everyone’s eyes, the tide of Source Qi was visible; a vast global force, and united as one in belief, converged into an ocean!
Massive, majestic, an endless azure longsword, with its point aimed skyward, appeared before countless gazes.
Like a beam of azure light, it pierced through the expanse of the sky.
The vast power spread out like a tidal wave, dispelling the indescribable oppression brought by the black giant hand.
Tang Yu felt a lightness throughout his body.
His expression stern, he didn’t glance at the Devil Race envoy or the black hand.
With his right hand loosely grasping, his left hand rested atop it.
Slowly, he pushed downwards.
Drip... Drip... Drip...
The black hand continued to descend at a steady pace.
The azure sky-piercing sword tilted gradually downwards.
The speed increased ...
The azure sword slashed at the black palm, the whole heaven and earth trembled, shockwaves visible to the naked eye spread out wave after wave.
Even high in the sky, the shockwaves swept over mountains and forests unabated. Environments that had not been destroyed by the aftermath of Transcendent battles were now razed by the shockwaves.
Only a few bare mountain peaks stood tall.
In several other distant Transcendent battlefields, many were flung into the air by the terrifying shockwaves.
The Floating Island was even closer, but fortunately, the presence of the "Space Belt" increased the distance, causing the force of the shockwaves to abate layer by layer until they reached the Protection’s Light Shield, leaving little strength.
Tang Yu stood unyielding, his Telekinesis bolstered around him, his aura climbing continuously.
His loosely clenched hands pressed down again, the impasse between the black hand and the azure sword slowly began to tilt.
Cracks appeared on the giant hand, wisps of black smoke emerged and dispersed immediately.
The black hand seemed somewhat illusory.
Tang Yu had forgotten about time, forgotten about space.
It was as if he had returned to the early apocalypse, when he was still a frail Awakener, wielding a sword he could barely lift, chopping down at the enemy.
Using all his strength for an all-out strike!
Crack... Crack... Crack...
More and more cracks appeared on the black hand, the force of the Saint-level strike, combined with the power of the world, Source Power, and Belief Power gathered in the sword, was being steadily eroded.
The Source Power Pool continued to burn, the untouchable, invisible Belief coiled above Green Shadow City.
Yet the Saint-level strike was merely a sourceless water.
The azure glow on the greatsword shone brilliantly, dyeing the whole world in blue, yet not blinding.
Under the multiple impacts, the black hand was full of cracks and burst open with a bang, countless black clouds swept towards the west, but in the next moment, were largely absorbed by the azure sword.
Having cleaved through the black hand, the azure sword dimmed a bit.
Tang Yu ceased the burning of the Telekinesis Pool, but the conjured giant sword uncontrollably continued to slash forward.
At last, the ascending azure brilliance ... thunderously fell.
Tens of kilometers from Green Shadow City.
Since the Defense Circle was built, Lindong no longer suffered from Demon Tide assaults, expanding five or six times from its original size.
Nowadays, Lindong has no mercenaries, uniformly referred to as "adventurers," many competent unofficial Awakeners chose to settle in Green Shadow City.
Yet the population of Lindong has not decreased, with Awakeners from all over Daxia Country and even from around the world, not all could settle in Green Shadow, many lived in Lindong, Shuo Lake, and other Satellite Cities.
Traveling by Source Power trains, it took less than an hour or two.
From a bird’s-eye view, the buildings of Lindong were no longer cramped but were high-rises, scattered in an orderly fashion.
Only at this time, the Lindong Sanctuary was very quiet, and there were almost no people to be seen on the streets.
All the survivors, including the majority of low-tier Awakeners, had already entered the underground civil defense facilities.
Overseen by a construction team proficient in Architecture Series Magic and located more than a hundred meters underground, the facilities were reinforced with Earth Magic, ensuring that even if a Transcendent battle erupted on the surface, destroying all buildings, the survivors in the civil defense facilities had a high likelihood of living through it.
This was only the worst-case scenario.
facing the direction of Green Shadow, Sanctuary Director Zhou Zhenglei silently gazed into the distance.
Zhou Zhenglei was now a newly promoted Transcendent, who had planned to join the war against the Alien Race. In the end, however, he was persuaded by Tang Yu to stay in Lindong.
A newly promoted Transcendent’s contribution to a war involving thousands of Transcendents was minimal, but staying in Lindong, he could still put up a fight against any stray Alien Race Transcendents.
Around him, there were quite a few City Defense Army soldiers wearing Combat Uniforms.
Rows of Energy-gathering Cannons and Source Power anti-air weapons were all in a semi-charged state, ready to launch powerful offensives the moment an Alien Transcendent appeared.
Slaying three to five ordinary Transcendents was not out of the question.
Zhou Zhenglei prayed that this battle would establish humanity’s victory.
Although the sky was clear blue and there was no news, he kept his gaze focused on the horizon.
it wasn’t true that there was nothing to be seen. A few hours ago, a suffocating aura had come from afar, along with that tiny red sun, which made it all too clear to Zhou Zhenglei that the battle was fierce indeed.
"How many hours has it been? Have we won, or...?"
"Commander!" his direct lineage subordinate still used the old title, "Look over there quickly!"
Zhou Zhenglei looked over, only to see at the edge of the distant horizon, a streak of green light piercing the sky, tearing the clouds asunder.
he saw the green light become more and more slanted, eventually disappearing behind the other side of the towering mountains.
Standing on the city wall, Zhou Zhenglei and the others felt a violent shock.
He guessed that another intense battle had erupted. His gaze shifted downwards, his hand propping his chin, when suddenly he felt something was amiss.
Looking up again, he rubbed his eyes, "Wait, wasn’t there a majestic mountain right in that direction?"
Where was the mountain?
It wasn’t a small hill; it was hundreds of meters tall, a mountain range that stretched endlessly, gone, where, where did it go?!
Zhou Zhenglei mentally clutched at straws, but outwardly, he had to maintain his composure.
a Reconnaissance Soldier came to report, with an unmistakable look of shock.
"Re-report to the commander, I saw a chasm, and according to estimates, it’s possibly tens of kilometers long, created by a single sword strike!"
Tang Yu stood suspended in mid-air, slightly bent over, releasing his loosely held hands, his mind utterly spent.
In his vision, the earth was split by a vast chasm that went as deep as the eye could see, stretching to the end of his sightline.
The giant azure Longsword had dissipated into pure energy and vanished.
Tang Yu swept his gaze around and could no longer see Mo Ke’s figure. Checking the territory map again, a large red dot was speeding away at a tremendous pace, about to exceed the map’s range.
He decisively sent Units One and Two in pursuit, but harbored little hope.
Mo Ke was, after all, among the very top tier of Earth’s strongest, and now that the encirclement had been breached, re-forming it was going to be difficult.
Although he was inclined to pursue personally, he decided against it upon assessing his own condition.
So, Tang Yu simply stood with his hands behind his back, his gaze fixed on several battlefield areas around the Floating Island.
The Transcendent melee, which had been paused momentarily due to the presence of the Holy Tier, erupted once again.
despite the Alien Race Transcendents still greatly outnumbering humans, their morale plummeted to rock bottom.
When sensing the gaze of the Green Shadow City Lord from afar, even Senior Transcendents shuddered violently.
There was no way not to be afraid!
This was the man who had cut down a Saint!
The Alien Transcendents’ internal panic had aligned the shattering of the Holy Tier Rune Stone with the cutting down of a Saint.
Scared witless, many of the Alien Race preferred to take a hit from their opponents in front of them rather than flee into the distance.