I alone am the Honoured One!

Rui Yuying sat cross-legged atop the altar and glowing runes wrapped around her arms and collarbone pulsing slowly.

Zhao Tian and Ji Shuang stood nearby, watching her in silence.

They could feel it too... the seal was on the verge of collapse.

Then, Rui Yuying opened her eyes, taking a deep breath, and the first rune cracked.

A thin line of golden light splintered from her shoulder and faded into the air.

Another rune broke, then another.

One by one, the seals shattered like glass under pressure.

Without warning, the altar beneath her exploded into dust.

Rui Yuying rose into the air, and her entire body was glowing as the runes disintegrated completely.

The wind howled as the sanctum's inner walls shook, then caved inward.

CRACK! CRACK!

Cracks spread across the floor and shot up the surrounding mountains like spiderwebs.

Zhao Tian reacted instantly, flying up beside her, and Ji Shuang followed as they dashed high in the air.

Together, the three of them hovered high above the sanctum as the land below began to unravel.

A low BOOM echoed across the land as the seal had broken.

The sky above them twisted.

CRASH!!

Clouds spun into a vortex of light, and arcs of black lightning danced from the horizon.

THOOOOMMMM!

A massive shockwave exploded outward, leveling everything in the surroundings.

The mountains surrounding Rui Clan shattered like brittle rock.

The defensive formations that had protected the clan for generations cracked and burst like glass.

Below them, the earth itself split open.

From the trembling ground, something enormous slowly appeared.

It was very slow and a thick mist poured out from the rift, curling like fingers across the landscape.

A colossal figure emerged, and its body is only half-formed, but it's already reaching for the sky.

Its massive chest expanded and contracted as if drawing breath for the first time in ages.

Its skin was a mixture of stone and shadow, shifting around, refusing to settle on a single form.

Where its face should have been, swirling runes floated in place, pulsing with energy.

Zhao Tian narrowed his eyes and Ji Shuang's expression remained cold, but the muscles in her jaw tightened.

Rui Yuying floated silently above the rift as she looked down at the Paragon.

The final battle was about to begin.

And the star itself would tremble.

Zhao Tian glanced at Rui Yuying and muttered "You fall back; I and Ji Shuang will take care from here..."

Rui Yuying gave a faint nod and dashed away from there.

Ji Shuang looked at the paragon and her gaze condensed slightly feeling the overwhelming aura.

The Paragon was still forming, but even in its incomplete state, it exuded a malice that turned the air heavy.

Its shadow alone stretched for miles, and the swirling runes in place of a face seemed to stare into their souls.

"Let's see if it can bleed," she muttered.

BOOM!

In an instant, she vanished from the sky in a flash of violet light.

CRACK-!!

Purple lightning tore across the air and she reappeared above the Paragon's misshapen skull.

Arcs of violet lightning crackled along her arm, spinning chaotically around her wrist as she hurled it downward.

A pillar of lightning ten thousand meters wide exploded from her hand and crashed into the Paragon's head.

BOOOOOOOOOOM!!!

The explosion lit up the skies and the ground trembled.

But when the smoke cleared, the Paragon hadn't moved even slightly.

The runes on its face pulsed slowly… as if amused.

Ji Shuang's expression darkened 'It didn't even blink.'

A deep growl thundered from the Paragon's throat, shaking the clouds and it raised its arm slowly.

Before it could finish the motion-

THOOM!

She dashed again and crashed her fist into its chest.

Purple lightning burst outward again, but this time it wasn't alone.

BOOOOM!!!

A shockwave of ice followed the lightning, turning everything it touched into crystalline frost.

Frozen mountains rose beneath them, created by the backlash of her impact.

The sky cracked again as colossal pillars of stone erupted from below, slamming upward , impaling the Paragon's torso from five different angles.

Dust filled the air.

But… CLANG.

A deep metallic resonance echoed and the spires shattered.

The ice that had begun to crawl over its body evaporated and turned to steam by the unholy heat radiating from its core.

Ji Shuang's let out a soft breath 'Even now, even after all that... It had not budged.'

The Paragon raised its mountain-like arm and slammed across the battlefield.

Ji Shuang barely dodged.

BOOM!!!

She twisted mid-air, countering with a spinning kick that launched a razor-thin arc of purple lightning at its arm.

SLEESH!

It hit the Paragon, but only a shallow mark appeared and then even that faded.

'It's healing... instantly?'

Ji Shuang narrowed her eyes, her foot pressed lightly against the air as she halted her momentum.

And then she vanished.

CRACK!

A thunderclap split the sky.

She reappeared high above the battlefield, thousands of meters in the air, where the clouds spun and churned around her.

Arcs of purple lightning danced wildly across her body, and she raised her hand towards the skies.

The clouds above began to swirl into a colossal vortex, stretching from one horizon to the other.

Bolts of pure violet lightning tainted with icy blue and earthen brown converged into a single, spiraling mass at her fingertips.

Even Zhao Tian, watching from afar, frowned slightly "She's going to split the continent…"

The vortex collapsed.

And from her hand, a single bolt of lightning fired downward.

CRRRRRAAAAAAAAAKKKKKOOOOOOMMMM!!!!

The moment it struck the Paragon, the earth beneath shattered.

A canyon miles wide opened instantly, swallowing mountains and forests around the perimeter; and the rivers vaporized in the blink of an eye.

The sky above didn't escape either... a jagged rift tore through the clouds, creating a vertical scar in the skies, as if the sky itself had been split open.

The Paragon was caught directly in the blast.

It vanished in a sea of violet light, its body engulfed by raw astral energy.

Thunder boomed for a full minute.

The explosion could be seen from the edge of the continent.

Cultivators who were far away in the skies could see the explosions happening in the distance.

When the light finally dimmed, only silence remained, and the land was unrecognizable.

Zhao Tian raised an arm to shield himself.

"Huff..." Rui Yuying gasped from afar, her fingers trembling at the scale of destruction.

As the dust settled, Ji Shuang floated in the sky with her hair swirling in the breeze.

The crater where the Paragon had stood stretched for miles.

But from the center of it… a shadow began to rise.

Its body was reconstituting and the runes glowed brighter than before.

It had grown stronger.

The Paragon raised its head and roared.

SCREEECHHHHHHHH!

A black vortex erupted from its chest, drawing the space around it into itself.

Ji Shuang readied herself again and at this time, Zhao Tian appeared behind her, holding a black sword in his hand.

She glanced at him and muttered "It seems like I really can't kill the Paragon..."

"Hm, let me take care of it."

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