Central Continent, an ordinary city with a population of one million.
In the morning, the rising sun emerged from the horizon, its boundless rosy clouds flooding the sky and staining the clouds at the edge of heaven, proclaiming the arrival of a new day.
Morning light broke through the dawn, and all things revived.
As the saying went, the morning set the course for the day. This should have been the beginning of a day Filled With vitality, yet for some reason—perhaps because of yesterday's Heavenly Change—the city felt somewhat stifling at this moment.
Bottom layer mortals eking out a living and cultivators had already risen from their homes, and the streets gradually Filled With passing crowds of people and cultivators.
Yet for some reason, the mortals, cultivators, and even all living creatures in the city seemed to feel restless and uneasy.
"Why are these beasts so unsettled?"
Someone noticed that something was wrong.
Poultry, oxen, horses, and some tamed Demonic Beasts were stomping their feet and shifting about uneasily for some unknown reason.
This made their already foul-tempered owners feel even more vexed.
"Hey, hey, look! What is that?"
Someone finally noticed something was wrong. He raised his head, pointed toward the horizon, and wore a terrified expression.
The surrounding crowd followed his gaze, their mouths falling open in horror as though they had seen something unimaginable!
Rumble!
A muffled clap of thunder resounded between heaven and earth. The tremendous sound swept across the world, and even the air seemed to ripple with Air Waves visible to the naked eye as it trembled!
The clear blue sky had, at some unknown moment, been overtaken by a mass of ink black clouds, heavy as mountains. They rapidly spread, covering and shrouding the entire sky within only a few breaths!
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