The whole world changed.
It turned pitch-black.
Ahead, ten blindingly white pillars of light shot straight into the sky!
Turning around, they saw white pillars of light everywhere, slowly closing in.
Bai Menya stood at the end of the light pillars, tall and slender as he slowly approached.
"Experience Lone Star's pain. Experience Lone Star's brutality! Experience death, experience terror! These are the last things you'll ever get to do."
Hun Tiangang wore a mournful expression. "I still need to eat chicken! Can't I experience it another day?"
Inside the grand formation, Lu Chengwen's heart pounded with anxiety. "Hey, Master, this thing looks pretty formidable. Can you handle it?"
"Of course I can!" Hun Tiangang said. "Can you?"
Lu Chengwen stared at him. "Obviously not! What kind of joke is that? Think of something—these light pillars... Fuck, they're coming!"
Hun Tiangang pressed Lu Chengwen's head down, and a horizontal beam of light buzzed past directly overhead.
Hun Tiangang nodded. "Impressive!"
Lu Chengwen clutched his head. "Stop praising it and think of something!"
"My brain doesn't work so well. Ah, here they come again!"
Two pillars of light flashed past them. Master and disciple straightened up in perfect sync, chests out and stomachs in, slipping through the gap between the beams.
Lu Chengwen was scared out of his mind. "What the fuck is this thing!?"
"Don't touch them. Touch them and you die."
"I know!" Lu Chengwen snarled through gritted teeth.
Then forty pillars of light began sweeping back and forth, alternating faster and faster...
Lu Chengwen felt as though he was already dead.
The light pillars crisscrossed like living creatures, weaving back and forth into all manner of irregular formations as they repeatedly charged at and sliced through the master and disciple...
Hun Tiangang grabbed Lu Chengwen and smacked a