At this moment, the entire world resembled a human purgatory, the battlefield filled with the nauseating smell of gunpowder and blood.
Those perfectly intact survivors looked around in horror, unable to believe what was happening before their eyes.
Just the first wave of the metallic storm brought unprecedented casualties and pressure to The other Xiao's camp.
Under such overwhelming, absolute suppressive firepower, individual strength seemed so insignificant and fragile. They felt an unprecedented sense of despair and helplessness.
Looking at the devastating firepower that crushed everything, Xiao's subordinates couldn't help but widen their eyes, their faces filled with astonishment and shock, as if they couldn't believe what they were seeing.
They had never imagined that when Xiao went all out and unleashed his full firepower, he could create such an earth-shattering scene.
Under this absolute firepower suppression, it didn't matter whether the opponent was a ninja, mage, or wizard—there was absolutely no chance of survival.
At this moment, their reverence for Xiao deepened even further.
However, this first round of attacks was merely the beginning for Xiao.
It was only the first warning sent to the enemy; the true fatal blow was yet to come.
Immediately afterward, Xiao activated various destructive weapons such as cluster missiles, atomic nuclear weapons, gravity light spears, oxygen annihilation lasers, Variable Slicers, and many others.
These super-heavy weapons, capable of reshaping terrain and even penetrating continental plates, also made their appearance.
These superweapons traversed thousands of miles in an instant, accurately landing within The other Xiao's camp.
"Boom boom boom boom boom~~~~"
In an instant, towering mushroom clouds rose into the sky within The other Xiao's camp, and endless smoke and flames covered the heavens.
Despite the great distance, those in Xiao's camp could still clearly feel the terrifying shockwaves that made their hearts tremble.
"Boom boom boom boom boom boom~~~~~"
"Boom boom boom boom boom boom~~~~~"
The bombardment from the heavy weapons lasted for three full rounds, with each round plowing the ground of the Great Firmament Arena dozens of meters deep.
However, when the smoke finally cleared, Xiao discovered that the Great Firmament Arena still remained intact, which proved that the opponent had endured the assault and was still alive.
"Hmm? What's going on? Is the opponent powerful enough to withstand my super-heavy weapons, or did they use some special resurrection secret art?" Xiao wondered to himself.
In Xiao's view, there were only two possibilities.
One was that the opponent possessed enough strength to ignore Xiao's attacks.
The other was that they had used a secret art capable of nullifying any attack.
For example, Obito's Mangekyō Sharingan ability: Kamui.
An extremely advanced space-time ninjutsu whose ability essentially transfers any object back and forth between reality and a separate dimension.
Or the ultimate genjutsu, Izanagi.
As the supreme genjutsu of the Naruto World, it blurs the boundary between reality and illusion, turning unfavorable events that occurred within a certain period into things that never happened, while transforming favorable events into reality.
If the opponent had mastered Kamui or the ultimate genjutsu Izanagi, then they indeed might have been able to avoid the barrage of heavy weapons and survive.
However, the opponent's actions only made Xiao even more excited and expectant.
Because this meant the opponent possessed sufficient strength and methods to withstand his attacks, making him even more eager to test his ultimate weapon—the Star Crusher.
The enormous steel wall instantly transformed, condensing into a gigantic cannon whose muzzle alone measured hundreds of meters in diameter.
"Main cannon charging!"
As Xiao issued the command, seemingly limitless energy converged within the cannon, while endless darkness gathered at the muzzle.
This terrifying power sent chills down everyone's spine, as though heralding an earth-shattering attack.
After a brief charge, the Star Crusher's main cannon began to vibrate violently.
This was because the barrel was being overloaded, unable to withstand the terrifying power contained within the projectile.
"Fire!!"
Accompanied by an excited roar, Xiao slammed down the firing button.
Although Xiao could have fired it with a single thought, a sense of ceremony was far more important than practicality.
"—"
A pitch-black sphere of energy over a hundred meters in diameter silently streaked across the sky, shattering every obstacle in its path at sub-light speed before directly landing within the enemy camp.
After the Star Crusher's projectile landed, it did not explode violently like the previous attacks.
Instead, it began collapsing inward.
There was no sound.
No light.
Only endless darkness and devouring.
Matter, energy, time, and space were all twisted and compressed into an unimaginably dense point under the Star Crusher's gravity.
Everything was crushed beneath that overwhelming gravitational force.
When the Star Crusher finally compressed into a point no larger than a fingertip,
the bells of the Great Firmament Arena rang once more, and all fifteen Great Luo Dao Fruit fragments returned to Xiao's body, signifying the end of the Great Luo Duel.
Xiao immediately stored the singularity within the Cyber Dimension to prevent it from being reset by the Great Firmament Arena.
This tiny point was no ordinary treasure.
Its mass had already surpassed that of a neutron star, infinitely approaching the realm of a black hole.
Its mass and structure were absolutely beyond imagination.
If it could be refined, Xiao would obtain a material that transcended the universe itself—Dark Iron.
The concept of Dark Iron originated from a world where technology had reached the level of gods, where top-tier cyber creations were revered as deities.
Among them, Death God Karl once proposed the theory of Dark Iron during a research conference and personally put it into practice.
He used tens of thousands of massive stars to cool the edge of a black hole, allowing black hole matter to undergo chemical reactions with them, successfully extracting a large quantity of black hole material.
However, the study of black hole matter lasted less than ten million years before nearly all of those stars burned out.
This was followed by an enormous explosion that shattered the black hole itself.
After undergoing super-high-temperature forging, those black hole materials ultimately produced many supermaterials—Dark Iron.
Its essence is refined black hole residue, possessing unimaginably powerful strength.
The essence of Dark Iron is actually refined black hole fragments, a substance that contains unparalleled power.
Even battle armor forged with only a tiny amount of Dark Iron powder could exhibit virtually indestructible properties throughout the universe.
No civilization had ever forged weapons capable of piercing its defenses.
Weapons crafted entirely from Dark Iron directly became the ultimate truth of the universe, granting their wielders such overwhelming deterrence that no civilization dared even raise its voice against them.
Although the singularity created by Xiao could not compare to a true black hole, it was already infinitely close.
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