This turn of events caught everyone completely off guard. The entire spirit of the Hehuan Book grew bizarrely scorching, and sensing that its main body was undergoing a nuclear fusion of sorts in some unknown location, it let out an aggrieved and furious roar. Cries of "ah, ah, ah!" could do nothing to salvage the situation. With no sense of direction, it could only launch reckless attacks at the spot where Li Dai's final aura had vanished. In a single stroke, a phrase and a poem consumed the vast majority of its hard-preserved strength.
"Whoosh!"
"Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!"
"Bang—"
"Screech—"
The poem it chanted transformed into diamond-hard "paper strips" that swept outward at invisible speeds toward a hundred-mile radius around the Altar. Following a series of sounds tearing through the air came the sound of something shattering. Over at the Altar, countless unbreakable "paper strips" smashed and sliced into it, creating a barrage of "bangs, bangs, bangs, screeches, screeches, screeches." With a deafening roar, the Altar cracked from the outside in and was completely destroyed. The earth shook and mountains trembled, dust filled the sky, and the white-flowered basalt rocks that made up the Altar scattered outward like falling meteors. These fragments traveled at extreme speeds, almost striking sparks from the air; if any cultivator had been present and hit, they would have died on the spot.
Chapter 831