On the other side, Quinn Shepherd's sword light clashed with Earth Star Lord. Earth Star Lord reacted with astonishing speed—his Soul-Summoning Mirror met Quinn's sword light, while his other hand raised the white soul-banner and drove it deep into the Celestial River!
Boom—
The waters of the Celestial River erupted violently. That enormous white soul-banner unfurled like a flag covering half the sky. Quinn’s sword light flashed—a sharp swish—as it pierced into the mirror, vanishing for a moment before reappearing from the soul-banner.
Alongside the sword light, countless colossal Creator bodies also flew out—each with a vertical eye in their brow, set with a Creation God-Stone. Their flesh was sturdy and unmatched in strength. Seizing Quinn’s sword light, these corpses turned it back and stabbed toward Quinn himself.
Earth Star Lord, head of the Five Luminary Star Lords, possessed immense power. Quinn’s sword contained the sword forms and Dao of later generations—nineteen foundational sword techniques woven into his style, unified by the twentieth sword form, which merged his essence, energy, and spirit into the sword itself, transforming it into pure sword Dao.
Yet Earth Star Lord’s white soul-banner was linked to the Soul-Summoning Mirror, and hidden within the banner were many Creator corpses. These Pre-Historic Creators had bodies refined to terrifying strength. Under his control, they seized Quinn’s sword light and turned it back to kill him.
He twisted Quinn’s sword technique to his own benefit and counterattacked, proving himself the mightiest among the Five Luminary Star Lords.
Now, with his birthplace—the Earth Ancestral Star—descending, his power grew ever stronger, his Dao cultivation surging. The arrival of the soul-banner and Soul-Summoning Mirror instantly let him seize the initiative.
But in the next instant, Quinn’s vertical demon eye at his brow snapped open, unleashing his divine sense. An overwhelming surge of god-sense instantly swept through all the charging Creator corpses!
Thousands of Creator corpses were under Earth Star Lord’s control, relying on his soul-control techniques. As the ancient god who mastered the Dao of death, he had once slain the Creators, seized their souls, and used those souls to command their bodies.