Heavy clouds blotted out the sky, and electric serpents tore through the darkness.
The sky had originally been filled mostly with black clouds steeped in evil energy, day and night indistinguishable, crushing down until people could barely breathe. When the divine dragons appeared, they used their innate gifts to transform wind and lightning, dispersing the abnormal black clouds. Rolling rain clouds could then be seen steadily pressing toward the capital...
The land beneath that suffocating oppression lay shattered and broken, with columns of black smoke rising everywhere.
Bai Yujun encountered a black pond, her delicate brows knitting tightly. The closer she drew to the semicircular sky curtain, the more severe the black water became. Far away, only deep wells contained black water, but near the perimeter, even ponds could not escape it. The koi had all died, the lotus leaves had withered, and the pond no longer held the poetic beauty of moonlight over lotus blossoms.
Standing beside the pond, she raised her right hand high.
Her small hand half-curled into a fist, bright light radiating from her palm and driving away the foul darkness.
She half-crouched, then slammed her half-clenched little fist down at the pond's surface!
Bzzzz...
Energy mixed with pure yang qi and dragon qi seeped into the pond, dispersing the blackness. Like white snow meeting a blazing sun, the black water rapidly retreated, restoring the pond at tremendous speed and revealing dead fish and withered lotus leaves across its surface, along with the fishy stench of silt.
"Ah..."
It treated the symptoms, not the root. Though the black water had been dispersed, blackness still slowly seeped out from the spring beneath it. The source lay within the capital beneath that enormous semicircular light curtain.
"They're all fucking idle, trying to turn the world into some dead,