As Yin and Nian Shi continued to confront, a shockwave of pure force, born from the friction of their conflicting wills, finally erupted outward.
BOOOOM—!!
Nearby star systems, untouched by their direct conceptual edits, were simply vaporized. Not exploded—unmade. Their suns, their planets, their asteroids, and the space between them ceased to exist in a wave of absolute nullification that spread at the speed of thought.
Further out, galaxies were sent spinning from their orbits, their structures warping and twisting like paper in a hurricane. Nebulae were shredded into chaotic streams of glowing plasma. The cosmic background radiation, the faint echo of the universe's birth, flickered and died in vast swathes of space.
Tantai Lanling, shielded within the folded space of the Land of Beyond Heaven that Nian Shi carried, felt the vessel around her shudder violently. It was like being inside a bell struck by a god.
