Ambush

Chapter 756: Ambush

Just as Zhou Tong looked toward the enormous stone stele, the gigantic monument standing in the center of the plaza suddenly erupted with divine radiance that shot into the heavens. It tore through the dim sky, preventing the blood rain that filled the heavens from falling. All of it was blocked high above.

At the same time, a vast, ocean-like fluctuation surged through the plaza.

This fluctuation was not an aura of destruction, but a higher-level spiritual pressure. Such terrifying pressure was utterly unbearable.

Half the people could not withstand it and could not help but fall to their knees, like weak ants submitting at the feet of the ruler of all things.

That immense pressure, that ancient and weathered aura, truly shook the soul!

At that moment, only a handful of strong-willed people in the entire plaza managed to endure the spiritual pressure.

Then, the divine light emitted by the hundred-meter-tall stone stele abruptly withdrew. Yet in the next instant, the Heavenly Tablet transformed into layer upon layer of phantoms, and several incomparably enormous divine steles suddenly appeared across the plaza.

However, upon closer inspection, only the stone stele at the center was real. The others were merely nearly lifelike phantoms. The true stele and those phantom steles stood together in the center of the plaza.

Although clouds and mist swirled around them, everyone could vaguely see mysterious carvings on all the steles. Everyone was excited and wanted to see clearly what was written upon them.

But no one could approach the steles. An invisible force surged around both the true stele and the phantom steles. Several cultivators tried to approach for a closer look. At first, nothing happened, but the moment they advanced one or two zhang, they abruptly turned into bloody pulp and scattered