Birth of the Demonic Sword Chapter 2352. Boulders

Noah could hardly trust the spectacle playing out before him. Massive chunks of sky plummeted from every direction in the white layer. The barrier encasing the higher plane had at last collapsed, yet a bizarre truth gradually emerged.

Not one boulder plunged into the void. Those pale fragments departed the sky merely to swarm the higher plane's heart, constricting the remaining space in the world.

Noah spotted another detail amid that spectacle. Gaps between the tumbling boulders failed to reveal a route to the universe. Heaven and Earth's whiteness lingered visible beyond that downpour. The sky endured intact.

The core group clustered at the higher plane's center, but the boulders soon compelled even those uninvolved in the clash against Heaven and Earth to shift position.

Emperor, Queen, and Vesuvia warped beside the core team. Their foes' locations stayed hidden by the deluge, yet no one spared time to fret over them.

A massive teleportation portal erupted nearby, unleashing a golden web of inscriptions. Pellio alongside fellow experts tied to that formation arrived at the core team, drawing puzzled stares toward Noah.

Noah lacked explanations, sharing his allies' bewilderment. Heaven and Earth clearly plotted something, but the vista yielded no useful hints.

Still, the group held little fear. The boulders loomed enormous, poised to blanket the higher plane, yet they brimmed with no true might. Energy swirled within, but their framework had long fractured. Basic strikes would pulverize them.

"Let's clear the area before things get worse," Noah swiftly commanded, with several experts trailing his dash.

King Elbas, Divine Demon, Emperor, Sword Saint, and Supreme Thief pursued Noah before fanning out to assault varied sections of the deluge. Their potent auras stretched beyond their forms as they readied strikes, but the boulders refused to pause.

A droning hum echoed from the sky past the boulders, igniting a chain reaction across the white cascade. Energy within the rocks grew volatile, unleashing beams that forged a unified assault.

The boulders fused into a cohesive force under those pale beams' sway. They further compressed their encirclement, sealing off any escape to the higher plane's outer reaches.

The boulders' summoned power raged fiercely yet held steady. The formation teetered on the edge of detonation, but its force circulated evenly, powering a shared technique.

Noah raised his arms, yet his destruction sense abruptly cautioned against the fallout from his blow. He might pierce that pale network, but the result would merely trigger the pent-up energy's blast.

Powerhouses like Noah could weather the blast, but the zone no longer held just the core team. The inscription array stood exposed, and its guardians likely couldn't withstand such fury.

Pellio, Cursed Reality, Great Builder, and other inscription specialists had sustained that construct through the climactic battle, but they no longer lingered apart. The boulders' press had dwindled the safe zone.

The inscriptions now confronted Heaven and Earth's might head-on, lacking the durability to endure. Moreover, Pellio and his peers teetered on exhaustion. Noah grew convinced his strike would slay most comrades.

"Your attacks have been excellent," Heaven and Earth's voice boomed from beyond the boulder formation as Noah pondered deeply. "Your worlds highlighted so many flaws. We'll use what we learnt to concoct energy befitting of our being."

Noah and King Elbas traded a look, then scanned the inscription masters' responses. Instant comprehension dawned on them all. The scheme shone so blatant that even fools grasped it.

Noah's core team and organization brimmed with Heaven and Earth's defiant foes. Those powerhouses had spurned the rulers' lures to arrive here.

Those laws and worlds had exposed cracks in Heaven and Earth's core, with Noah's squad even validating them. Their barrages had triumphed over crystal energy, proving the rulers' form remained unsteady.

That truth stood widely known. Heaven and Earth had conceded their crystal energy's unreadiness mid-battle. Now, this assault unveiled the profound motives steering their path.

"These are the leftovers," Noah remarked.

"We accumulated too many inferior and weak worlds throughout the eras," Heaven and Earth responded as an ethereal avatar form shimmered before Noah. "We didn't want to create more non-laws or multiple versions of ourselves, so we used you to cut away those meanings for us."

A weaker cultivator might wallow in guilt, but Noah pierced Heaven and Earth's ruse. He knew the rulers would have purged those flaws sans his aid. Yet deeper woes loomed beyond that petty jab.

The boulder array packed every essence Heaven and Earth sought to sever from their core. Still, faint links bound them. No such strike could exist otherwise.

A unified onslaught drawing from myriad worlds' might would terrify any soul. Plus, Heaven and Earth had crammed those boulders with crystal energy. This promised the higher plane's mightiest blow ever, aimed at Noah's entire faction.

In truth, Noah had long hardened his will. He stood set to unleash his attack, dooming his organization to claw through survival. He'd not waver, though a potent option beckoned.

The dark world unfurled beside Noah, swelling to swallow the zone trapped by the assault. Harsh screeches pierced it as tiny beasts burst from the dark matter to latch onto the boulder array.

Noah withdrew the dark world, letting companions behold the sight. A vast swarm of black worms coated the boulders, gnawing into their substance to devour their essence.

"June!" Noah bellowed, and June grasped his intent.

Clouds swiftly enshrouded the worms amid their feast on the boulders. Thunderclaps boomed through the dark vapors, birthing colossal lightning bolts that erupted outward.

Every bolt packed peak rank 9 devastation, some verging beyond that threshold. Inscriptions and frail experts would shatter under them, but June drew them all to herself.

Cursed Labyrinth veterans knew those worms despite alterations from dark world life. The beasts could consume Heaven and Earth's substances and mimic their lightning.

Noah had lacked chances to deploy the worms against the flawless sky. Yet the boulder array's fragility let the horde dismantle it and its dire energy sans global cataclysm.

June thrived on the assault's likeness to Heaven and Earth's style, absorbing bolts unscathed. In fact, the worms' barrage mended wounds riddling her frame.