(Heartfelt thanks to 'Kinoshita Hideyoshi Fan' for the 1888 reward! And thanks as well to 'Kaede no Chōrei,' 'Tianming. Remnant Moon,' 'Seven Sins Shattered,' '5453 Sa,' 'Yan Yu Jiangnan,' and 'Yume no Shouyou' for their rewards!)
Under the influence of some inexplicable force, the pitch-black gale unleashed by the Beast King suddenly reversed like a fountain, shooting into the sky before charging fiercely back toward him.
The Beast King naturally had not expected his attack to suddenly rebound upon him. However, Wu Yan had already put him on guard with that strange feeling, so although he was somewhat surprised, he did not panic. His expression grew slightly grave as he stretched out one hand and swept it toward the dense black clouds around him.
"Bzzzz—!"
The dense black clouds immediately began churning as though stirred by an invisible hand. Their rotation abruptly accelerated, rapidly contracting.
"Bzzzzzzzz—!"
As the boundless black clouds shrank, the sky above the Giant Beast Forest began to tremble. The more those dark clouds contracted, the more intense an utterly terrifying pressure became. Everyone below broke out in cold sweat, and even the magical beasts began trembling in all four limbs.
The next instant, the enormous black vortex cloud layer, which had contracted until it was only as large as the City of Different Eras, spun sharply. A thunderous roar echoed from within it, followed by a torrent of black rain pouring down from the vortex clouds with a rushing "crash!"
"Sizzle—!"
Beneath that black rain, the black gale soaring into the sky seemed to corrode, releasing streams of foul-smelling black smoke. Before long, it was completely eroded away, leaving only the terrifying black rain—which merely looked like rain of the wrong color—crashing down like a waterfall. Everyone was thrown into panic.
Watching the black rain pour