Chapter 5945

Whum!

Energy snapped into the waiting formation; the Nine Heavens Sword Array awoke like a celestial beast stretching, every rune on the pavilion blades burning silver.

Nine hundred flying swords wove a lattice a league wide, and inside that lattice sword-light condensed into a hard, silver rain that poured toward the ranks of the Ninefold Nether Palace.

“Petty tricks.” Morven’s laugh held no warmth.

He flung out a robed arm. “Nether Styx Formation-rise.”

Three thousand disciples knelt in perfect unison, seals flashing between their fingers as black miasma coiled upward.

Above them a titanic onyx palace took shape in the clouds, its gates yawning open to vomit a tide of wailing specters that slammed headlong into the falling swords.