Rumble!
Jiang Mian stood quietly in the air, watching the scene in the distance.
Rows of buildings collapsed, and rubble pattered down from the dome.
The dome was about to shatter completely, burying the entire Underground City.
Yet just as the earthquake reached its most violent point, it suddenly hit pause.
A breathtaking violet glow blossomed from the city center, spreading at an unimaginable speed.
The collapsed buildings, the shattered streets... all turned into purple crystal, beautiful enough to take one's breath away.
"Time's about up."
Jiang Mian sighed softly.
She took one last look at the Underground City, then her figure turned to shadow and vanished.
Outside the passage, Xiao Song had just ended a call when he felt the tremors underground.
As a high-tier Awakened of the [Elemental] Path, he could clearly sense a heart-stopping elemental force spreading outward.
Was this the power of an eighth-tier [Cataclysm] behemoth?
And it hadn't even gone all out?!
Several auras were rapidly approaching from nearby.
Besides You Hui, the eighth-tier Awakened, there were also ten Seventh-tier Awakened from the Supervision Department and the Defense Department.
With the west and north under attack, this was already most of the high-tier force Base City Number One could spare from within its borders.
The fighting in the east had died down, allowing more Seventh-tier forces to be quietly dispatched north. There weren't many Seventh-tier Awakened left to guard headquarters.
"Old Gu."
Everyone greeted Gu Chengan.
He waved a hand, indicating that they didn't need to stand on ceremony.
Just then, a streak of black light flashed by.
Jiang Mian's figure strode straight into their view, drawing everyone's attention.
"[Formless]?"
Someone furrowed their brow without thinking and cast a puzzled look toward You Hui and Gu Chengan.
The atmosphere suddenly grew tense.
Before they set