The great hall was so empty even echoes seemed to slip.
Every luminous pearl had been pried from the walls, leaving ugly black holes behind.
The floor, once paved with spirit-gathering jade tiles, was now nothing but pitted dirt.
Even the golden nanmu pillar supporting the vaulted ceiling had been hacked down to half its former size.
"Holy shit..." The burly man's axe clanged to the ground. "Were we robbed?"
The gaunt old man trembled all over.
"We spent half an hour breaking down the door, and whoever was inside even scraped the floor bare? How fast were they?"
Qin Chuan stood within the Shadow Veil, less than five meters from them.
Watching their despair, he opened the System Panel to check the few High-Rank Void Crystals he had picked up along the way.
Just as Qin Chuan was about to slip past them and head to the next location, the ground beneath his feet began to shake violently. It was not the tremor of a collapse, but a pulse from a higher dimension.
Above the Divine Tribunal, the rain of law-light collapsing after the loss of the Void Source Core suddenly froze in midair.
Then every pure-white mote reversed course, turning a glaring crimson.
Countless crimson array lines spread like a spiderweb from the square at the center of the Divine Tribunal, racing in every direction.
In just two seconds, they formed an enormous dome-shaped barrier that sealed off the entire core of the Divine Radiance Forbidden Zone.
"What's going on?" The burly man jerked his head up and stared at the thick, blood-red curtain overhead.
The gaunt old man backed away, his face whiter than paper.
"The Blood Sacrifice Law... This is a God King Tier Blood Sacrifice Formation!"
Inside his bubble on the Black Tower's ninth floor,