Never Could Have Imagined

In North City, the battle had come suddenly and ended just as suddenly.

But the panic within the city had only just begun to spread.

News that the Heaven Punishing Bureau was heading for Lin'an City had long since set the whole city abuzz, and as the day approached, the air had grown so oppressive it seemed frozen solid.

The well-informed great clans and families of every kind in the city, along with people from all walks of life, had already fled the city to take refuge.

Even the Four Great Clans had secretly sent away some of their younger, more junior descendants, lest some mishap occur and they all be wiped out in one pot.

What the living beings throughout the city feared most was none other than a massacre of the entire city!

Because the Heaven Punishing Bureau was capable of such a thing.

When the aftershocks of battle shook heaven and earth, and the surging river battered the city walls before spilling into the city, the atmosphere of fear within the city reached its peak.

No one knew what had happened, much less what the outcome was.

They had only seen an enormous Golden Spear and a Buddha's Hand descend from the sky one after another.

The people of Lin'an City had seen this Buddha's Hand before, yet they still had no idea what the outcome was.

Just as everyone held their breath, waiting either for disaster to descend or to survive the calamity—

To the west of South City.

"Buzz, buzz, buzz~"

The air hummed and trembled.

Then, the people within the city watched in horror as a golden Buddha's Hand reappeared in the heavens, blotting out the sky and covering the earth.

Even from so far away, they could feel its majestic Heavenly Might, so