The moment those words were spoken, boom! The vast and magnificent immortal palace suddenly erupted with soaring golden light that shot straight into the clouds. Above the heavens, it was like a single stone stirring up a thousand waves; surging air currents, like water and clouds, thundered furiously toward every horizon. The boundless momentum seemed almost tangible, shaking heaven and earth and carrying an overbearing force that could annihilate all beneath the skies, as though it had punched a great hole through the heavens in an instant.
The sect leaders who had been standing far away at the edges of the immortal palace to watch the spectacle all blanched in horror. The tyrannical force erupted before their eyes so suddenly that they had no time to dodge. Nearly all of them desperately thrust out their palms, trying to withstand the overwhelming momentum crashing toward them.
Boom boom boom... Explosions rang out around the immortal palace, mingled with countless screams.
Wan Bosheng, his beard and hair standing on end, forcibly shielded Wan Ling with his protective aura and endured the incomparably powerful shockwave head-on. He was instantly blasted away. Long Sheng likewise shielded Long Xiaojiu and was sent flying. These two sect leaders were highly cultivated, so they had fared relatively well. As for everyone else, they were not so fortunate. Of the nearly thousand sect leaders, half were instantly killed by the shockwave, blown into bloody mist without even a whole bone left behind.
Of those who remained, nearly half spat blood and plummeted toward the ground from afar, their fates unknown. Most of those still in the air had also suffered injuries of varying severity. Could those sect leaders who had once smugly rejoiced at being ranked within the top thousand and thus qualified to attend the immortal palace