Before this earth-shattering power, the already devastated Tokyo City below welcomed its true apocalypse.

"Crack—Boom!"

Countless skyscrapers hundreds of meters tall were snapped in half and collapsed like fragile building blocks under the sweep of the shockwave. The earth cracked violently, and bottomless fissures spread crazily like spiderwebs across the city streets, swallowing every building on the surface.

Dust blotted out the sky, and accompanied by remnants of ice shards and demonic flames, the end of the world had arrived!

The refugees gathered at the edge of the city had just been feeling the warmth of the sun and giving thanks for the salvation of the gods.

But now, watching that earth-shattering shockwave rolling over like a tsunami, the smiles on their faces vanished, replaced by extreme terror and despair.

"Ah—! Run! Run!"

"This is a demon! This is a demon that wants to destroy us!"

"Help! I don't want to die! Wuwuwu..."

Millions of refugees cried and screamed, fleeing frantically toward the outskirts of the city. Pushing and trampling occurred, and countless people fell in the chaos, were trampled underfoot by their companions, and never stood up again.

They had thought that the gods had come to save them, but now it seemed that this was simply a battle between high-and-mighty immortals, where the Mortals suffered!

However, Zhou Huai, standing atop the Dragon, didn't even glance at those ant-like Sakura Country people fleeing below.

In this era of great cleansing where the weak are prey to the strong, there is only the qualification to survive, with no room for sympathy.

Zhou Huai's eyes were now blood-red, and the Battle Intent in his heart had climbed to its peak!

"Xiao Hei's firepower is still lacking a bit; let me handle it myself!"

Zhou Huai shouted sharply, leaping off Xiao Hei's back voluntarily. He left the protection of the Dragon and charged alone toward the center of the explosive energy!

"Crackle—!"

In mid-air, brilliant golden lightning erupted from his entire body! The violent Law belonging to the Thunder Swordsman Yasuo was pushed to its limit without reservation. The lightning coiled around his limbs and bones like spirit snakes, making him look like the God of Thunder descending to the world.

Immediately after, with a swoosh! Six resplendent golden wings suddenly spread from behind him! Gabriel's Holy Light of purification formed an impenetrable barrier on his body surface.

At the same time, beneath his feet, the phantom of a Shadow Monarch, dozens of feet tall and exuding an endless Aura of darkness, rose from the ground, firmly lifting him into mid-air!

Lightning, Holy Light, and Shadow! Three completely different, and even mutually exclusive, extreme Laws were perfectly merged into Zhou Huai's body under the Heaven-Defying mediation of All-Aspects Unity.

His current Aura was so immense that he was a human missile loaded with a nuclear warhead!

"Break for me!"

Zhou Huai roared, carrying terrifying power that could break through anything, and smashed fiercely through the remaining snow and energy barriers, crashing straight into the main hall of the ancient Ise Grand Shrine!

"Boom—!"

The dome of the shrine, which symbolized the authority of the old era, was shattered, and rubble and ice splattered across the sky. The impact force directly smashed a bottomless meteor crater into the floor of the shrine.

Amidst the thick smoke and dust, a mocking voice slowly drifted from the deep entrance of the shrine's ruins.

"Heh... flashy but hollow, nothing more than a paper tiger."

The Extreme Ice Empress's voice was full of deep contempt.

"If you truly have the guts, then come into the ruins! This Empress guarantees that I will pick the most exquisite ice coffin for you!"

Zhou Huai sneered; he couldn't be bothered to trade trash talk with such an old antique who had just woken up and didn't understand the situation. His body swayed slightly, the lightning and Holy Light on his body intertwined, and he transformed into a brilliant stream of light, charging into the abyss-like entrance of the shrine's ruins without hesitation.

"Roar—!"

In mid-air, the Demon Dragon Xiao Hei let out an earth-shaking roar, «N.o.v.e.l.i.g.h.t» folded its massive black dragon wings, and carrying the green-clad beauty—Chun, followed its master, diving headfirst into the dark ruins that could swallow everything.

Passing through space, the scene before his eyes changed.

Inside the ruins, everything in sight was vast and white. Goose-feather-sized snowflakes filled the sky, mixed with bone-chilling gales capable of easily slicing through the Physical Body of an S-Class Professionals, raging and roaring within this independent high-dimensional space.

Zhou Huai hovered in mid-air, narrowing his eyes.

He still remembered that when he first forcibly broke into these ruins a while ago, there was a majestic, cloud-piercing sacred snow mountain here that exuded an ancient Aura. But now, that snow mountain had long since been razed to the ground by the violent energy during his earth-shattering battle with the Sakura Country's SSS-Rank Expert, Kujo Naruya, leaving not even a scrap behind. The terrain in these ruins now was flatter than if a dog had gnawed on it.

The violent blizzard was a thick wall of ice, blocking all vision, and even Zhou Huai's enhanced Mental Energy detection was greatly suppressed here.

"Whoosh—" In the snowstorm, the air turned cold, and even time seemed to be frozen for half a second.

That woman's arrogant voice drilled into Zhou Huai's eardrums from all directions simultaneously.

"Ant of the current world, from the moment you stepped into these ruins, you have already been labeled as ignorant and foolish in my heart."

There was a high-and-mighty condescension in the Extreme Ice Empress's voice: "I know you are strong; the scent of various disgusting Laws mixed on your body even makes me smell that traitor, Duan."

She sneered repeatedly, "But in our glorious era, a guy like you who doesn't know how to show reverence wouldn't even be qualified to carry my shoes. You cannot imagine what kind of inviolable existence I once was!"

Chun, standing on the back of the Demon Dragon, rolled her eyes. While pulling a handful of melon seeds from her pocket, she muttered, "This old woman's tone is truly disgusting. How many years has she been asleep, and she's still immersed in her broken, old-day dreams? Zhou Huai, don't be polite with her; tear her mouth apart."

Facing such arrogant, empty boasts, Zhou Huai crossed his arms over his chest and laughed instead of getting angry.

"Is that so?" Zhou Huai smiled: "Always going on about 'your era.' Old hag, times have changed; the Qing Dynasty has fallen. Don't bring out your old-era foot-binding cloths to embarrass yourself."

"Since you boast about being invincible and don't even put Mr. Duan in your eyes—" Zhou Huai's eyes turned cold, lightning flashed around his body, and Killing Intent rippled out, "then don't hide in the blizzard like a turtle shrinking its head. Roll out here and let me see exactly how much your old bones are worth!"

"Presumptuous!"

In the darkness, the woman was furious, her voice bone-chillingly cold, "You death-seeking thing, since you are in such a hurry to die, this Empress will fulfill your wish!"