Hushan Kingdom.
Above the eastern sea, purple lightning filled an area spanning several hundred kilometers.
This was the Taiyin Sect's Yin Thunder. Its radiance illuminated most of Hushan Kingdom, leaving countless Demon Race members and Human Way cultivators scared out of their wits, while ordinary people looked blankly up at the sky.
Dense lightning descended from the Clouds, stirring waves across the sea surface and bringing up schools of pale-bellied fish. As the lightning was about to reach the shallows, where many Fishermen were casting their nets, they stared at the sky with blank minds, perhaps unable to understand why lightning had suddenly run wild beneath a clear sky.
Yet what struck first was not the lightning, but the waves churned up by it. Wherever the purple radiance woven through the waves passed, every fish was reduced to pulp, and the azure seawater visibly turned blood-red.
Just as the Fishermen were about to be swallowed by the lightning like those sea fish, a compassionate voice rang out from the horizon. "A Saint's mercy!"
Then a faint golden flash swept through the air, blocking the lightning and carrying the Fishermen from the sea toward the nearby shore.
"Fellow Daoist Cang Ji, why the anger?"
Kai Yun's voice held neither sorrow nor joy. As it spread, the hearts of every living being within several hundred kilometers were soothed. At the same time, he appeared by the shore. Faint golden halos emerged around him and spread like Gold Sand. Most of the purple Yin Thunder collapsed the moment it touched those halos.
The remaining lightning gathered several dozen kilometers directly before Kai Yun and, in the blink of an eye, formed a human figure. It was Cang Ji. His eyes were not on Kai Yun, but on Yangde, who stood atop an auspicious