Chapter 58: Reverberations in the Cratered Earth

Chapter 58: Reverberations in the Cratered Earth

The battlefield lay silent, save for the low hiss of scorched grass and the soft crackling of fading embers. Ash drifted in the air like ghostly snowflakes. Jagged fissures clawed through the earth in all directions, remnants of a single, overwhelming strike that had split the very ground asunder. A vast crater, wide enough to swallow a small pagoda, smoldered at its heart.

At the edge of the ruin, Xiao Chen stood with unsteady feet, his chest rising and falling in labored rhythm. Shadowedge, slick with blood and crackling faintly with lingering spiritual residue, trembled in his grasp.

> “So much destruction...”

he muttered, voice hoarse and low.

His eyes, cold and distant, scanned the devastation. The third form of the Heavenly Yin-Yang Judgement had left a scar not just upon the land—but upon the very fabric of energy itself.