Yan Ziqi heard the thunder as well. He raised his head alongside Shao Fu Chu Shangu and the others, only to see that whenever a bolt of lightning fell, a soldier would stumble and one of his Dao Flowers would be cut away.
Yan Ziqi was astonished. He stepped forward to inspect it and saw that after the Dao Flower fell, it quickly broke apart and dissipated into heaven and earth.
Before long, some soldiers had all three Dao Flowers cut away, their cultivation beaten back to its original state as they became Spirit Scholars, standing there in panic without any idea what had happened.
Most of the Immortal Court soldiers had never cultivated the Conquering Sage or Original Dao Realm. Once their three flowers were severed, they became Spirit Scholars of the Heavenly Phenomenon Realm, causing an uproar.
Yan Ziqi initially thought it was an isolated case, but gradually, more thunderclouds appeared in the sky. One flower, two flowers, three flowers...
The soldiers in the army began to panic and each brought out Immortal Path Divine Weapons to bombard those clouds, yet their attacks often passed straight through them.
The generals of every army also noticed the thunderclouds and deployed all sorts of methods. But once the thunderclouds were shattered, they would reform, and the lightning was even stranger—no treasure could block it. It fell directly down, striking the Baihui point atop the soldiers' heads with perfect accuracy every time.
Those thunderclouds could not be dispersed, broken, or driven away. They recognized their targets when they struck, ignoring everyone else. Once they landed on someone's head, they would knock them to the ground, and a Dao Flower would fall.
When all three Dao Flowers had fallen and the Dao Realm closed, one became a Heavenly Phenomenon Spirit Scholar among