I fabricated myths to guide the revival of spiritual energy.

Dead silence.

For a full three minutes, the only sounds in the square were the flowing of the Seine and the hissing sound from the Void Mantis's wound, which resembled strong acid corroding the earth.

The three-foot-long sword of energy, composed of extremely compressed high-dimensional spiritual power, was firmly embedded in the monster's head. The distorted air around the sword revealed that it still contained terrifying energy powerful enough to destroy an entire city.

The 100,000 civilians in the square, and the billions of people around the world watching this scene intently via satellite broadcast, even deliberately suppressed their breathing, for fear of disturbing the sword of judgment that seemed to have been descended by a god.

Just when everyone thought this was the end of this "miracle".

"Buzz—!"

The sword of energy pinned to the mantis's head suddenly emitted an extremely crisp, even bloodthirsty and excited, sword cry!

The next second, to the astonishment of the world, the Qi Sword didn't need any physical point of force; with a "whoosh," it forcefully pulled itself out of the monster's carapace!

Leaving behind a cloud of dark purple, foul-smelling blood, the air sword smoothly completed a sharp right-angle turn in mid-air, defying all common sense about aerodynamics.

The sword tip pointed precisely to the west—across the Atlantic!

"boom!!!"

A deafening sonic boom cloud exploded again over Paris!

This sword, which had achieved the "first kill," did not dissipate due to energy consumption. Instead, after absorbing the high-dimensional energy that dissipated when the void creature died, the sword grew to five feet in length!

Mach 30! Mach 35!

It was like a hypersonic kinetic energy projectile that had gone completely berserk, violently tearing through French airspace and dragging a plasma tail that stretched for tens of kilometers before plunging into the stratosphere and hurtling toward the North American continent!

……

North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) at Cheyenne Mountain, Colorado.

Inside the entire underground command center, the glaring red alarm lights illuminated everyone's faces, making them look like vengeful ghosts.

"Sir! That hypersonic energy object didn't dissipate in Paris! It...it crossed the Atlantic! It's approaching our east coast at a terrifying speed of 12 kilometers per second!"

The radar monitor's voice was completely shattered, filled with utter despair.

"Where is it headed?! Washington? New York? Or the Pentagon?!" The air defense commander gripped the control panel so tightly that his fingernails almost broke off.

If it were a nuclear missile, they could activate the national missile defense system and try their luck. But faced with a "supernatural weapon" the size of a sword, traveling at Mach 35, and constantly changing course erratically, all of humanity's current radar and fire control systems can't even lock onto its exhaust fumes!

"The trajectory has been calculated... Oh my God..."

The intelligence officer stared at the glaring red line on the main screen, his pupils suddenly contracting: "Sir, its target isn't Washington... it's Los Angeles! It's that 'cocoon' in the heart of Los Angeles that's hatching."

What made the military feel even more desperate was that just now, the energy detector showed that the biological reaction inside the cocoon was increasing exponentially!

"Warning! The energy within the target organism has collapsed! The energy equivalent is approaching that of a 100-ton tactical nuclear weapon!"

"It seems to have sensed danger and is trying to hatch ahead of schedule!!!"

"Crunch... crunch..."

Cracks began to appear on the surface of the enormous cocoon. A blinding dark golden light emanated from the cracks, accompanied by a high-dimensional mental pollution that could instantly drive mortals insane, which began to spread outwards.

But at this very moment...

"Zheng—!!!!"

A clear, sharp sword cry, seemingly emanating from the heavens, resounded powerfully in the minds of all US troops stationed around Los Angeles, defying physical soundproofing!

Above the sky, the clouds were instantly split in two.

A terrifying sword light, dazzling to the extreme and seemingly condensing the brilliance of the sun, plummeted straight down from a height of ten thousand meters with unparalleled force!

The void overlord, who was about to "form his core," was not given any chance to struggle or display his power.

To the Kunlun Qi Sword, which had traveled 10,000 kilometers to attack, this so-called threat that could destroy America was nothing more than a small coordinate on the Heavenly Dao's register.

"BOOM—!!!!"

The ground trembled violently, as if the entire city of Los Angeles had been struck by an 8-magnitude earthquake.

The sword light, with its irrational violence, pierced through the very center of the hundred-meter-tall fleshy cocoon with extreme precision!

"Awooo—!!!"

From deep within the cocoon came an extremely short, yet piercing scream filled with endless fear and resentment.

The cocoon of flesh, strong enough to withstand a nuclear bomb, was as fragile as paper before the "Great Dao Laws" carried by the Kunlun Sword Qi. The "Void Golden Core" inside the cocoon, which had just condensed and hadn't even had a chance to unleash its world-destroying power, was brutally shredded into its most primitive particle powder by the sword qi!

One sword, and the fetus dies in the womb.

"It's gone...the energy source is gone!" Inside the Los Angeles monitoring station, scientists looked at the screen that had instantly dropped to zero and wept with joy.

But the slaughter by that sword of energy had only just begun.

……

"As if Heaven had called out his name, all evils retreated."

China, atop the Kunlun Mountains.

Gu Qing stood with his hands behind his back, the data stream deep within his eyes refreshing like a waterfall. The coordinates of every void monster on Earth emanating the energy fluctuations of a "domain" lit up with a blinding red light on his retina.

"Since we've already drawn our swords, we won't begrudge the cost of a few ants' oil."

Gu Qing snorted coldly and casually drew a sword-like finger in the air with his right hand.

"Disperse."

The enormous energy sword, which had just pierced through the ground beneath Los Angeles, located on the other side of the world, disintegrated the moment it received the Creator's command!

It did not disappear, but instantly split into more than a dozen slightly thinner, but faster, deadly sword threads!

These sword-like threads, as if equipped with an omniscient and omnipotent GPS navigation system, began a frenzied "global cleanup" at an abnormal speed exceeding Mach 30, heading towards absolute forbidden zones around the world that humans have discovered or have not yet discovered!

Whoosh!

A sword-like thread plunged straight into the Mariana Trench in the Pacific Ocean.

In the absolute pressure and pitch-black depths of the ocean, 11,000 meters below the surface, a deep-sea void octopus over 500 meters long, about to completely devour a nuclear submarine and complete its "Golden Core" transformation, was cleaved in two from head to tail by sword threads before it even had time to react. The violent sword energy even instantly boiled the surrounding seawater, forming a massive steam tornado that stretched straight to the surface!

Whoosh!

The second sword-like thread swept across the sky above the Amazon rainforest in South America.

Deep within the rainforest, a mutated Void Mother Tree, covering an area of ​​tens of kilometers and condensing a "Wood-type Golden Core" by devouring millions of living beings, had its spiritual core, hidden a thousand meters underground, pierced directly by a sword thread that descended from the sky. That mother tree, which even incendiary bombs couldn't kill, withered into ashes in a fraction of a second.

Whoosh!Whoosh!Whoosh!

Subsurface ice caves in the Siberian ice sheet, the shifting sand core deep in the Sahara Desert, and even ancient ruins hidden beneath the thick ice sheet of Antarctica...

At this moment, satellite monitoring stations around the world went completely crazy!

They stared in horror at the large screen as more than a dozen terrifying streaks of light, impossible to intercept or analyze, darted back and forth across the Earth's surface with utter impunity!

They ignored national borders, topography, ocean, and rock formations!

"Report! The Siberian energy source has been detected as disappearing!"

"Report! The unknown high-dimensional reactor at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean has been completely wiped out!"

"Report! The giant energy entity in the Sahara Desert has collapsed..."

Battle reports poured into the Pentagon, the Kremlin, and Downing Street like snowflakes.

The top leaders of every country slumped in their chairs, as if all their strength had been drained. Their eyes held no relief at surviving such a catastrophe, only a deep, ingrained awe and fear.

They finally understood.

This is not a rescue at all.

This is the Eastern deity standing atop Kunlun Mountain, carrying out a "pest cleanup plan" for the Earth without any personal feelings!

Those catastrophic disasters that leave the entire nation helpless and forced to close its eyes and await death.

In other people's eyes, it's just a sword thrown casually, something that can be done "casually" in a few minutes.

"Dimensional reduction attack...this is the real dimensional reduction attack..."

The American president, trembling, took off his glasses. He looked at the sword threads on the big screen that had finally converged in one place and then vanished into thin air, and laughed bitterly.

……

At the summit of Kunlun Mountain.

A gentle breeze blew by, lifting the hem of Gu Qingqing's dress.

He looked at the system panel and saw that all the red alerts on Earth that exceeded the threshold had been completely cleared. Satisfied, he withdrew his right hand.

"This is my Kunlun sword."

Gu Qing didn't turn around, but simply left behind a sentence, his voice not loud, yet like a resounding bell, echoing throughout the world:

"If the enemy can go, so can I."