Chapter 320
Crack.
Fine cracks spiderwebbed across the surface of the dark red sphere.
"It's done!! Hahahaha!!" King Jing burst into joyous laughter.
The void core was surrounded by an immense region of Corruption. Once destroyed, an area spanning tens of thousands of li would be entirely cleansed of its erosion—a reprieve that would last several years before Corruption slowly crept back.
Many years ago, ancient texts left behind by the Mistborn Emperor had proposed a hypothesis: if, within an extremely brief span of time, every deep core and void core in the world were completely destroyed, and the resulting gaps filled by drawing on the power of other pollution sources, perhaps Corruption could be expelled entirely.
And now, the Federation's largest void core was about to be destroyed for the first time—and by his hands.
King Jing drove both arms upward with savage force.
Clang!
The spear shaft swept up, trailing a swath of dark red mist. With a sharp clatter, the heart of the void core—that dark red sphere—shattered completely and dissolved into nothing.