The scene cut to Star God. On screen, his hands extended outward, and in that instant every trace of cold energy within a hundred kilometers began converging toward his open palms. The devils, momentarily shaken, steadied themselves and surged forward, claws outstretched. Star God darted back, slipping past every strike with ease. Frustration mounted among the devils as they realized they couldn't land a single hit — and with every dodge, his aura seemed to fold deeper into the gathering storm of energy around him.
One devil slit his own wrist and let the blood fall; the others followed suit, and together their blood traced out a massive rune on the ground. Chanting rose in an unknown tongue as their bodies began to fuse. While Star God continued drawing in cold energy, the fusion completed — and from the blood rune, a towering humanoid figure with a serpentine lower body clawed its way free, its power already rivaling an early-stage devil of devils. Star God only smiled. "Star God Constellation Annihilating Palm."
The sky above planet Dorvan plunged into false night, and across that darkness a constellation of stars blazed into being. Even Tanko and Solanky — the two strongest beings on the planet — felt the danger coming and went still. Star God had risen into the sky, three miniature stars burning bright in his palms. He lifted his hand, drew the stars into himself, and brought his palm down on the fused devils below.
His descending palm swelled to a hundred kilometers wide, constellations glittering across its surface. Everywhere it passed, time itself seemed to halt, and matter simply ceased to exist. The palm struck the fused devils, and they were gone — utterly erased. Watching from the sect hall, the elders and sect masters looked on in disbelief; the technique Star God had just used had originally been created by a god of creation, and it was called the Star Constellation Annihilating Palm. Tanko, seeing it unfold, understood in that moment that today might be his last.
Zuloch spoke first. "Impressive. Brings back memories — Starix once erased seventeen tenth-dimensional devils from existence with a single slap, and to this day, none of them have managed to reincarnate." Star God smiled faintly, studying the palm print seared into the ground. The sect master of the Sky Hybrid Sect added, "He carries the Starix Creator God's lineage, and what he just performed was his own understanding of the Star Constellation Annihilating Palm concept. The true technique shatters the space-time of the region entirely, severing karma along with cause and effect — something no being below the creation and destruction level could ever hope to block."
Star God descended from the sky, breathing hard. "I didn't expect the concept alone to hit this hard. My output went well past my half-step-god emperor level — even a touch beyond what a god of gods might manage. And that's just the concept. I can't begin to imagine what the real technique would look like."
The feed shifted to Light Seeker, though her form had all but disappeared, swallowed by a wash of white brilliance. She took a single step forward, and the dark alley around her dissolved entirely into a sphere of light. The sect master of the Sky Hybrid Sect rose abruptly from her throne. "That's… impossible. How is she bending the laws of the universe back at her level? This team needs to be broken apart — pairing them together only caps what each of them could become."
Within her domain of light, Light Seeker reigned absolute — strong enough, inside it, to kill even a fourth-dimensional being despite her own god emperor-level strength, since the domain itself was a technique born from a source goddess. The devils never stood a chance. She lifted her hands, and the light poured over them, purifying them down to white ash instead of the grey soot left by ordinary death.
Venerable Leo, watching alongside the others, turned his attention to the two remaining screens, settling on one. There, Tee looked to be losing ground against a relentless barrage from the devils, the barrier she'd raised by spinning her whip beginning to buckle. One of the devils sneered. "Hahaha, no use fighting it — even with high-god-level strength, you can't hold off ten devil emperors." He wasn't wrong; the combined physical strength and endurance of ten devil emperors matched that of a single early-stage god of gods or devil of devils.
Okafor studied the screen. "She's holding something back. Hm... now I'm curious what it is." As he spoke, the ground around Tee trembled faintly. She lowered her whip, and the barrier gave way completely. The devils closed in. "Don't worry, sweetheart," one called out, "we won't make it painful." The moment the words left him, his expression turned grave, some instinct warning him that disaster was about to fall.
Tee murmured something too quiet for the devils — or even the sect masters and elders watching from afar — to catch. The instant she finished, the space around her fractured like shattering glass, sealing off everything within a kilometer from the outside world. She took one step forward, her body flickering between corporeal and incorporeal, and the world around her seemed to simply stop existing. Forming a seal with one hand, countless engravings surfaced across her skin. "I never wanted to pick on the weak," she said, "but running your mouth like you控制 my fate — that's where I draw the line. Let me show you real torture."
With a wave of her hand, the devils were dragged into a separate magical dimension, sealed off completely from outside law. There, trapped in illusion, they believed themselves locked in battle against the gods of the god realm — in truth, they were tearing each other apart. Tee smiled, melted into the space around her, and vanished. Watching from the sect hall, the onlookers sat in stunned silence, never having imagined that two world-defying magicians could rise from the Sky Hybrid Sect at once.
Venerable Leo finally understood why he'd found it so easy to answer Cilia's questions, even the ones he wasn't meant to. Quietly, to himself, he murmured, "So that's it — she's always been a magician, using engravings to reinforce her body and stand against far stronger beings despite her weak bloodline." Of everyone, Solanky was the most shaken — but something clicked into place in his mind, and at last he understood how Tee could wield techniques belonging to the ancient dragons despite the frailty of her bloodline.