And just as the attack was a mere breath from annihilating her—
RUMBLE...
A new power descended upon the God Realm.
It was not dark. It was not violent. It was not profound energy.
It was... life.
A wave of pure, white light, so sacred and so primordial that it defied comprehension, washed over the battlefield.
The black star of annihilation, the moment it touched this light, dissolved. It didn't explode.
It was unmade.
FZZT...
The attack vanished as if it had never been.
Jasmine froze, her entire being recoiling in absolute, primal terror. "THIS... THIS POWER! I... I HATE IT! I HATE IT!!!"
The Evil Infant Wheel shrieked within her, a sound of pure agony. This light was its antithesis. Its enemy.
The one thing in creation it truly feared.
From the Soul Stealing Palace, a figure slowly rose into the air. It was Xiao Lingxi.
She was weeping, her face a mask of terror and grief. She was not a warrior.
But behind her, a faint, divine image of a woman with boundless grace began to form, its aura enveloping the entire God Realm in a shield of absolute, primordial law.
The Ancestral Goddess's Will had awakened.
Jasmine's rage turned to animalistic fear.
"YOU... WHO ARE YOU?!"
"Please... stop," Lingxi pleaded, her voice shaking but carrying a strange, divine resonance. "Stop hurting everyone."
"HATE! I HATE YOU!" Jasmine screamed. She raised her hands high.
The Evil Infant Wheel of Myriad Tribulations appeared above her.
The one hundred Devil Gods behind her roared, and their power began to flow into the wheel, feeding it, amplifying it.
She was no longer trying to pierce the barrier. She was gathering the power to shatter the entire star realm.
BOOM!
A second figure of darkness descended, landing beside Jasmine.
It was the corrupted Heaven Smiting Devil Emperor, Jie Yuan.
Her face was a mask of cold emptiness, her aura a perfect, chilling void.
She, too, raised her hand, and her primordial Devil Emperor power flowed into the Evil Infant Wheel.
The combined might of the two most powerful corrupted beings in the universe gathered into one single point of annihilation.
Xiao Lingxi cried out, her hands raised. The barrier of white light flickered violently... and then it began to crack.
"It's... it's too much..." she whispered, her strength failing.
"IT'S OVER!" Jasmine roared in triumph, bringing her hands down.
The world-ending attack was about to launch. The God Realm's last light was about to be extinguished.
And in that instant, a different tremor shook the Primal Chaos.
It did not come from the Northern Divine Region.
It came from the center of the universe.
The God Realm of Absolute Beginning.