Handsome Scholar walked with calm, measured steps toward the Black Robe Village Chief, who was struggling in agony with all four limbs maimed:
"Now,
tell me,
what exactly is going on here? From what I can see, you are not entirely an isolated drifter ignorant of the outside world."
Yet in response to Su Wen's questioning,
the old village chief merely forced a few vicious curses through clenched teeth:
"You will regret this!
You have interfered with the sacred sacrifice. The Guardian God will make you pay!"
He tremblingly pointed behind him.
In an instant, accompanied by a heavy rumbling sound, a massive glass barrier behind the stone wall slowly opened and suddenly lit up.
Yet beyond the barrier,
the being once regarded as the Guardian God was now like a startled bird, dragging a massive black shadow as it fled without hesitation toward the distant Abyss Sea Area.
The sight filled the old village chief's face with disbelief. His expression went completely blank.
This violent and cruel man had never imagined that the Guardian God, once considered inviolable, would actually choose to flee.
As Su Wen watched that rapidly vanishing figure, a mocking smile merely curled at his lips:
"An Abyssal Spawn?
How interesting."
Yet he did not let it go. Instead, he instantly mobilized the power that had long accumulated within him.
In an instant,
Handsome Scholar raised his blade in an exceptionally graceful motion, pointing its tip toward the faraway tide.
Mythical Trait—Rhine—Watcher's Sword—Tear Storm!
With a thunderous roar, the entire space was pierced through by Tear Storm's power, leaving behind a massive void.
Although that void existed for only an instant before boundless pure-black seawater fell from the sky and filled it,
the chain reaction it caused was utterly terrifying:
The distant Abyss Sea Area seemed