The torrential rain over Mingdu grew heavier and heavier. Dark, oppressive clouds spread from the southwest, gradually blanketing the entire sky.
People temporarily set aside what they were doing and hurried home.
During the rainy season of high summer, a family gathered around a round table filled with hot food. Though simple, it was still a kind of beauty and happiness.
Yet ordinary people were like creatures at the bottom of a well. There would always be things happening in this world that lay beyond their imagination.
Just like the people at this moment, unaware that an even more terrifying storm was about to sweep across the entire Sun Moon Imperial City.
Within the imperial city, at the square where the Heaven Worship Ceremony was being held, grayish-brown energy swept through in an instant. The onlookers nearby had no time to react before they discovered that the energy had unknowingly entered their bodies.
At first, no one felt anything was wrong. But when they tried to move, everyone instantly fell into boundless shock and confusion.
There was only one reason: they discovered that their brains had lost control over their bodies!
Of course, this only applied to most people. Those with cultivation above Soul Emperor, or even Soul Douluo-level powerhouses, merely felt their speed affected to varying degrees. They had not yet lost control.
But even in the imperial city of the Sun Moon Empire, how many fighters above Soul Emperor could there be? As for those nobles who spent their days idling away their lives, even with the aid of accumulated medicines, not everyone could raise their cultivation.
Thus, within the imperial city's noble circles, perhaps more than seventy percent of them would be unable to escape this calamity.
Then, something that truly sent a chill down their