Someone shouted, and countless cultivators quickly answered the call, launching attacks at the barrier before them.
At the same time, the hurricane finally reached the barrier and crashed into it with the force of withered wood being swept away.
"Crack..."
Attacked from within and without, the earth-yellow barrier flickered several times before finally collapsing under the strain, shattering into wisps of demonic qi.
The cultivators in the city were overjoyed. Taking advantage of the barrier's disappearance, they fled the royal city without hesitation, scattering in all directions to save their lives.
"Courting death!"
Long Su, who was undergoing his tribulation, saw this scene and the veins at his temples bulged. With a stir of Demonic Thought, several hundred fleeing figures immediately lost control and flew into the air, hurtling toward the Heavenly Lightning.
"Ah!"
These cultivators were, at most, at the Void Refining Stage. Beneath the terrifying Eight-Nine Lightning Tribulation, they were reduced to ash in an instant, their souls utterly destroyed.
The cultivators throughout the city were all fleeing. Those Long Su had dragged back were only a small fraction of them.
In merely five or six breaths, the royal city, which had been packed with people moments ago, became an empty city.
Long Su glared hatefully at Xu Chunniang, the venom in his eyes almost tangible.
Once he passed the lightning tribulation, the first thing he would do was kill this human cultivator!
Xu Chunniang met his gaze at her leisure, entirely unafraid.
There were still five rounds of lightning tribulation left. Perhaps Heavenly Lightning would strike him dead soon enough, and she would not even need to act.
But Long Su had clearly prepared for this long ago. Once the city's cultivators fled, he quickly regained his composure.
All kinds of demonic artifacts and array disks were