Imperial Lords Kong Tian and Kong Fa, who were stationed in the ancestral grounds, naturally sensed the disturbance at once. Every hair on their bodies stood on end, as though some great terror was about to descend!
Fortunately, the disturbance vanished as quickly as it had come, showing no signs of escalating. After freezing for several breaths, Imperial Lords Kong Tian and Kong Fa finally recovered.
Their expressions remained grim, however, and they still seemed badly shaken.
Especially when they saw the hundreds of terrifying formations suddenly activated at the core of the ancestral grounds, they knew the disturbance had been no illusion!
Sure enough, a blinding beam of black light suddenly shot out from beneath the ancestral grounds the next second.
And its target was none other than Imperial Lord Kong Tian!
Imperial Lord Kong Tian clearly had not anticipated the attack. Before he could even react, the black light struck him.
Had those hundreds of formations not weakened the black light layer by layer, leaving it with barely a tenth of its power, that single strike would likely have annihilated both his body and soul.
Even so, he was far from unscathed.
"Pfft!"
Imperial Lord Kong Tian's eyes flew open, and without warning, he spat out a mouthful of golden imperial blood that burned straight through the void before him.
"Damn it! That damned thing woke up! The black light blasted a crack in the formations!"
He roared, his fingers blurring as he frantically formed hand seals.
Beside him, Imperial Lord Kong Fa's face was as white as paper.
He did not even have the strength to speak. Biting the tip of his tongue, he forced out his origin blood essence and turned it into a sky full of blood-colored formation patterns, hurling them into the abyss below