The sky was an eerie iron gray, ash drifting down like snowflakes and obscuring the world's original colors.
The ground was riddled with savage cracks, crimson lava surging amid thunderous roars, while the air was thick with the pungent scent of sulfur.
Jiuyao City had been reduced entirely to ruins. Blazing flames burned without end, meteors dragged conspicuous fiery tails across the heavens, deafening explosions rose and fell in succession, and dense smoke and dust billowed up.
Origin Mall stood amid this apocalyptic scene, carrying an air of "even if the world were destroyed, it still would not be affected in the slightest."
A crisp sound like shattering glass rang out, and the space across the entire sky broke apart. Endless black mist poured forth, specks of scarlet light flickering within it—they were countless savage crimson eyes.
Strange howls laced with mental interference sounded out as a torrent of black energy poured toward Origin Mall. Space shattered everywhere it passed, as though streaks of black stripes had appeared in the sky.
Luo Chuan stood before the store entrance, looking up at the black rain. Not a ripple stirred in his eyes, and he even could not help yawning.
"Such a strange life-form... Wouldn't it be better to stay put? Why insist on coming out to cause trouble?"
Luo Chuan muttered, and his figure vanished from before the store. He appeared directly in the sky, where black mist churned before him, brimming with frenzied thoughts.
Black energy gathered at his fingertips like a tiny glass bead. He placed it into the black mist, then returned to the store entrance.
The black mist froze there, as though time had been stopped.
Black beams of light continued to descend. Whenever they touched Origin Mall, they vanished for no apparent reason. When they landed