The moment this thought arose, heaven and earth responded!
Heavy clouds like blocks of lead, faintly tinged with ominous blood-red light, shrouded the entire sky, plunging Guang Province and several surrounding provinces from daylight into night without warning.
"Rumble!"
"Rumble, rumble!"
Bolt after dazzling bolt of lightning viciously tore open the heavens, turning the black sky back into day.
Then, as though rivers had overturned, rain poured down under the howling sweep of violent winds, smashing madly into the earth. The downpour came in sheets, leaving devastation everywhere!
And that was not all. The torrential rain began to carry fist-sized chunks of hard hail. At first there were only a few scattered pellets, but soon the rain dwindled, wholly replaced by terrifying hail that blanketed the sky. It battered mountains until solid rock shattered and pounded crater after crater into the ground;
Before long, goose-feather snow began falling from the heavens as well, mingling with the hail, carrying the roar of the firmament and the groans of the earth as it wreaked havoc without restraint!
Within only a few breaths, lightning, gales, torrential rain, hail, and heavy snow took turns ravaging the land. These wildly abnormal phenomena proclaimed the "anger" of the "will of heaven"... The "heavens," formed from the gathered thoughts of all things, were not living creatures. Calling them "angry" might not have been entirely accurate, yet at this very moment, Shen Mo truly felt the undisguised malice this world bore toward him!
With the heavens in such a terrifying state, the earth was hardly any better.
Inside the Spirit-Severing Land of Guang Province, underground magma seemed to have boiled over, churning ceaselessly. From time to time, terrifying pillars of fire and clumps of blazing molten rock erupted, hurtling toward Shen Mo at the edge.
Beyond the scarred