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"Crack... crackle..."
Small pieces of tile and rubble rolled across the ground or fell from heaps of ruins, producing faint noises.
A breeze swept through the ruins, stirring up thick dust and making the air seem slightly murky.
The sight before Noah and the others made all of their expressions turn grave.
This had been a magnificent shrine, no less imposing than the Forbidden City-like palace in the space where the Great Sage Equal to Heaven had been imprisoned.
Yet at this moment, everything inside the shrine looked as though it had been ravaged by a violent earthquake, reduced to a horrific ruin.
The surrounding trees had fallen outward in every direction.
Buildings lay crooked and collapsed, turned into pile after pile of rubble.
Faintly visible were people dressed like shrine attendants, either sprawled haphazardly on the ground or buried directly beneath the rubble, their entire bodies covered in dust.
The scene resembled a disaster zone so closely that it made one's breathing stop.
Yuri Mariya covered her small mouth with her hand and turned her head away, unable to bear looking at it.
"How awful..." Even Ena, usually so carefree and wild, could not help muttering that.
"It looks like the Great Sage caused a massive amount of destruction before leaving West Heaven Palace, doesn't it?"
That really did seem like something that monkey would do.
He had probably intended to make a grand and dignified retreat even if he had to withdraw, so he blew apart the entire West Heaven Palace before riding away on the Somersault