The Shining Star Above The Heaven-Chapter 596: Battle Against Millions 5

The member of the Seven Deadly Sins who looked at the colossal rock above them felt their heart tremble. They were already shocked by Aldrian’s existence itself, many things about him were truly beyond their comprehension. In all their years bearing the title of the Seven Deadly Sins, they had never shown as many expressions as they had today.

The appearance of the colossal rock in the sky above them was one more thing that drew shocked reactions from them. Some even showed wry smiles, as if they couldn’t believe something like him could exist.

"Is this for real? Did he create that using energy’s manifestation? Did he draw energy from across the continent or something?" Gluttony said, his tone filled with disbelief.

However, no one could answer him, because no one knew how such a thing was even possible. Even the Devil Lord, who was watching from a distance, showed yet another astonished expression. He had shown more emotions since Aldrian’s arrival than he had in countless years, as Aldrian continued to reveal things beyond his comprehension.

"Did his god give him that technique? No... Even if his god granted him such a thing, there’s no way Aldrian could use it in his current state. The cultivation limitations in this place should prevent any cultivator from unleashing a technique on that scale."

"His energy alone shouldn’t be enough to create something like that. Heck, he just unleashed an attack that was already incredibly powerful and should have consumed a lot of energy, how can he still do that?" he thought, narrowing his eyes at the colossal rock.

Aldrian possessed something like divine energy. He could comprehend death laws, which were supposed to be comprehended only by divine beings. And now, he had created something on a scale that should only be possible beyond this place.

"Is his god not bound by the laws of causality? Did Aldrian not receive heavenly punishment for having and using all of these things here? Does he have a cheat far greater than mine? Just what kind of cheat did he receive to make all of this possible?"

The moment the Devil Lord reached that conclusion, he felt anxious for the first time.

Yes, the Devil Lord was finally feeling anxious, as Aldrian’s existence was flipping everything he thought he knew. In the next few days, he would face him, and he couldn’t help but wonder about his chances if he had to fight Aldrian. Could he really win? Did Aldrian still have cards up his sleeve, even after showing that much?

This unknown made him anxious.

But he calmed himself. He took a deep breath and exhaled slowly before turning his eyes to the portal in the sky above. He pushed aside that rising anxiety. No matter how incomprehensible Aldrian’s existence was, there was no way he could defend himself against a god.

"Yes... As long as the portal reaches the threshold—which is just a little more—everything else becomes irrelevant. No matter how irregular his existence is, there is no way that man can stand against a god," the Devil Lord reassured himself.

But then, while he was still thinking, he saw the colossal rock begin to ignite, flames erupted across its surface, lighting up the dark surroundings like a lone candle in a vast, shadowed land.

At Aldrian’s battlefield, the situation already felt like daytime, bright and hot, with the sun right above their heads. The difference was, this time, the sun was dangerously close. Looking at the scene now, many devils positioned at the edge of the lines of troops finally began to escape.

They were running, flying, doing whatever they could to escape from beneath the colossal rock.

The other members of the Seven Deadly Sins, except for Pride, also tried to escape using their specialized escape talismans. But unfortunately for them, they were within Aldrian’s domain.

In fact, all of the high-ranking devils, from the Seven Deadly Sins, the Seven Devils of Annihilation, and the Seven Devils of Disaster, were also caught within his domain. Aldrian had already blocked their escape using a spatial barrier, making their escape talismans useless as long as they attempted to escape beyond his domain.

"What the fuck?! Why isn’t the talisman working?!" the Wrath Devil shouted in fury. Even after breaking the talisman, he was still stuck in the same place.

"We must be inside some kind of spatial restriction! It must be Aldrian!" Sloth said. At this moment, there was no laziness in her at all. She actually felt anxious and threatened, the colossal rock, if it fell, would surely be enough to kill all of them.

"Don’t let him drop that!" Gluttony shouted. But even without his warning, all the members of the Seven Deadly Sins had already moved on their own. At this point, the most effective way to stop the rock from falling was to kill Aldrian.

That colossal rock was the manifestation of elemental energy controlled by a cultivator—and in this case, Aldrian was the caster of the technique. What they needed to do was kill him or disrupt his focus to make him lose control of the rock, returning it to its original form as natural elemental energy.

But before they could unleash their most powerful attacks, a sudden surge in gravity slammed down on them, forcing them all to collapse to the ground! Even the Pride Devil fell from his floating position, losing control of his technique, though he quickly steadied himself, halting his descent just in time.

He looked in Aldrian’s direction again as he regained control of his technique. Tens of thousands of swords were already pointed that way, but he was stunned when he looked toward where Aldrian was supposed to be.

Aldrian had already disappeared!

Then, he, and the millions of devils trying to escape, heard Aldrian’s voice echo across the vast land.

"Enjoy my present."

After that...

Whooooooosh!

The sound like air being split apart came to them as the colossal rock began to fall. Seeing this, the millions of devils panicked and began escaping more erratically than before.

Fortunately, not all the devils were within Aldrian’s domain, allowing many to flee as fast as possible. But for those inside?

Not only could they not escape, they also had to resist the intense gravity, so strong that even King-stage cultivators struggled to move. As for Grand Duke to Duke stage cultivators, they could barely remain standing. And the lower stages?

Forget standing, they kissed the ground and couldn’t do anything about it.

The rest of the avatars within Aldrian’s domain had already collapsed, as the devils who created them had also fallen. Forget maintaining a battle formation, at this point, they couldn’t even keep themselves upright.

As for the King-stage and Emperor-stage devils who could still move, they already took matters into their own hands.

"Destroy that rock! Don’t let it fall in its complete form!" the Wrath Devil shouted, pulling his axe from his back. He then flew toward the rock, followed by the Gluttony Devil, while the Sloth Devil summoned all of the strongest beasts in her arsenal.

She summoned two Hydras—one at high Emperor stage and one at peak Emperor stage—three Chimeras at high Emperor stage, and three Flame Falcons—two at high Emperor and one at peak Emperor stage. In addition, she summoned tens of King-stage beasts of various kinds, all in rapid succession.

Once she finished summoning, she collapsed to the ground, completely drained of energy. At this point, even she couldn’t stand. Weighed down by the gravity, she could only look up at the sky as the pressure forced her body against the ground.

The Pride Devil also finally unleashed his technique, as the Incoming Calamity Sword in his hand suddenly flew forward at high speed, followed by tens of thousands of swords, all aimed at the falling rock.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

A wave of destruction followed as thousands of swords struck the colossal rock. The impact was immense, an area spanning tens of kilometers was obliterated by the sword rain. However, it was still not enough to stop the falling rock.

Worse, this had been the Pride Devil’s most powerful attack, and he had already spent a great amount of energy executing it.

Combined with his earlier battle against Aldrian, he had only 30% of his energy remaining in his dantian. But he didn’t stop. He began summoning thousands more swords, calling them from the immobilized devils below. Once again, he attempted to use the same technique.

While the Pride Devil repeated his technique, the Wrath Devil had already reached the area beneath the falling rock. He resisted the heat radiating from the flames surrounding it as he swung his axe with all his strength, having already activated his devil form. His devil energy flared so powerfully that it distorted the space around him, and his axe glowed with his energy.

Boom!

His axe collided with the rock, destroying a large portion of its underside, or at least, from his perspective. In truth, what he shattered was still small compared to the total size of the colossal rock.

Meanwhile, from another part of the rock, the Gluttony Devil activated his absorption laws. Black holes appeared in both of his palms, and he directed them toward the colossal rock as he began attempting to absorb it.

However, he knew he couldn’t absorb the entire rock. What he hoped for was to at least weaken its power enough to reduce the destructive impact. If he could do that, it would give them a much higher chance of surviving this catastrophic event.

From below, the beasts summoned by the Sloth Devil also began attacking the rock, along with any devils who could still stand and use their techniques. Those still capable of attacking unleashed their most powerful technique in a desperate effort to stop the falling rock.

The rumbling from each impact gave them a small sliver of hope, maybe, just maybe, they could survive this.

They kept destroying large sections of the rock, but the problem was, destroying this colossal mass wasn’t that simple. When they shattered parts of the bottom, the debris, chunks of rock still wrapped in flame, fell in all directions.

The burning fragments crashed to the ground like meteorites. And when they hit...

Boom! Boom! Boom!

It felt like the end of the world for them.

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