Flourishing Development

"No!!!"

The ancient, weathered elder of the Zhexian Sect screamed in terror, and the protective immortal artifact before him instantly exploded.

He himself seemed to suffer a crushing blow; half his body burst into a cloud of blood mist, and his aura withered to the extreme.

The tower ship he controlled grew dim with fading runes, countless cracks spreading across it.

The magic shield of the Supreme Arcane Star's Grand Magister was as flimsy as paper. His staff snapped, and he spat out a mouthful of blood shimmering with starlight as many towers of the Floating City collapsed.

The most miserable was the Purification Protocol's mothership.

That cold mechanical creation seemed weakest against attacks like the God-Beating Whip, which involved karma and the conceptual level.

Where the whip-shadow passed, an unprecedented chain of detonations erupted at the mothership's core, and its enormous hull nearly split apart from the middle.

Countless metal fragments and streams of energy scattered into the void; it had clearly suffered heavy damage.

One strike had almost crippled the core combat forces and vehicles of all three advance teams!

However, at the very instant the whip-shadow's power erupted and heavily wounded the enemy forces—

Zhou Qing, Lin Yan, and Long Aotian all shook violently at the same time, their faces turning pale.

A heavy, obscure, inauspicious aura abruptly descended and coiled deep within their Primordial Spirits, making the circulation of their magic power sluggish by several degrees, while their souls felt waves of stabbing pain and oppression.

Karma!

And an extremely severe karmic backlash at that!

Previously, when they had used the God-Beating Whip in lifeless star regions, the karma involved had been extremely slight.

But now, this strike from the God-Beating Whip, containing Heavenly Dao Authority, had directly or indirectly caused the deaths of a great