To demonstrate, Nian Shi gave a casual, almost lazy wave of the sword.
Buzz—
There was no visible beam, no dramatic light show. But space itself parted before the blade's edge. A clean, absolute line was carved through the Land of Beyond Heaven, from where he stood to the distant horizon.
The very laws of reality were severed along that line. On one side, life exploded in hyper-evolved, chaotic glory. On the other, everything was reduced to a silent, grey nothingness. He had cleaved the realm in two with a mere thought given form.
Tantai Lanling stared, her mind unable to process the casual display of power that dwarfed any divine ability she had ever witnessed.
Nian Shi admired his work for a moment, then turned his chilling gaze upon her. The time for meditation was over. The time for consolidation was complete.
