Outside the tower, just as several cultivators who had been the first to awaken staggered out, the ones at the front had already swayed into the air. But when a sharp-faced young cultivator was about to take flight, his foot suddenly sank for no apparent reason.
At first, he thought it was merely an illusion caused by damage to his Sea of Consciousness. But when he soon found that he could not lift his foot no matter how hard he tried, he looked down.
At that moment, a powerful hand was reaching out from beneath the ground, gripping his ankle tightly. He wanted to shout, but it was already too late.
The large hand abruptly dragged him downward with tremendous force.
His figure flashed and vanished, completely wrapped in the power of earth and pulled underground.
After grabbing the other man by the throat, Hanyu swiftly fled far from the area.
As he traveled underground, Hanyu asked coldly, "I ask, you answer. If you don't, I'll kill you. Understand?"
The sharp-faced cultivator could not stop himself from nodding in terror.
"Where is the Enlightenment Dao Tree?"
The cultivator had never imagined that Hanyu would ask such a question. The terror on his already frightened face instantly deepened into sheer horror.
Everyone knew where the Enlightenment Dao Tree was. If someone did not, there was only one possibility.
This man was not from here!
He was still horrified and unable to believe it when he felt an enormous force around his neck. It clamped down like iron pincers, as if it would snap his neck cleanly.
It was difficult to imagine that a Divine Platform Realm cultivator like himself would one day face such an absurd threat of death—having his neck broken by someone's bare hand?
Where had this man gotten