**Darkness did not swallow the world—
It burst.**
BOOOOOOOOOM!!!
A violent shockwave ripped the corridor open as Gou Yan's colossal axe came down like a mountain-range splitting in half—
And Shaurya stopped it with one hand.
One.
Hand.
Stone cracked under Shaurya's feet. A crater formed. Dust spiraled upward in hungry currents. The air itself warped around the collision, bending like molten glass.
The disciples froze.
Even the enemies paused.
Gou Yan's pupils trembled.
"You… caught… that…?!"
Shaurya's jet-black irises reflected the old monster with eerie calm.
"You swing like you're one breath away from arthritis."
Crack.
The axe's handle shuddered.
Gou Yan ripped the weapon back with a snarl, the veins on his arms bursting with crimson glow — the Stone Shattering Sect's ancestral berserker bloodline awakening.
He stomped forward.
"STONE DOMAIN—AWAKEN!!"
The world lurched.
The Corridor Mutates into a Battlefield
Stone crawled across the walls like living skin.
