"Something's wrong!"
The moment the cannon fired, the Holy Lord felt his heart turn cold.
Countless others felt the same.
At that moment, everyone aboard the Mysterious Jade Wheel was staring at the cannonball streaking across the sky like a meteor.
The swarm of insects stirred up by the cannon, along with the recoil and shockwaves, sent the Mysterious Jade Wheel—heavy as a mountain—spinning.
If even the shockwaves were this powerful, one could imagine how fiercely Xu Yi, launched from the barrel, was being battered.
Yan Zi's tears streamed down at once. Yin Qiu's vision went black, and she collapsed straight into Qin Qing's arms.
"Anyone hit by a cannon like that is certain to die. Your Majesty, we must consider another plan," Elder Kong called out.
The Third Holy Son's eyes burned with aggression. His thoughts were fixed on Xu Yi's treasures. If the swarm hadn't been closing in around them again, he would have risked his life to charge out.
"Proceed according to the original plan. We'll stake everything on this one gamble."
At the critical moment, the Holy Lord displayed the bearing of a ruler of the realm and made the final call.
All the True Core Late Stage experts released their spirit shoots from the tops of their heads. Dozens of terrifying spirit-shoot domains instantly wove together into a canopy. With the Golden Insect King atop the mountain, a thousand zhang away, as the dividing line, they forcibly split the swarm in two.
The power of this immense domain seemed to interfere with the Golden Insect King atop the mountain as well. He tried to let out a roar, but when he opened his mouth, no sound came out.
Dozens of terrifying spirit-shoot domains had converged and erupted at this one point, almost completely locking down