Someone was the first to react. A terrified scream, warped with panic, burst from their throat!
At those four words, everyone felt their minds go blank, as if they had exploded!
World-Ending Heavenly Punishment!
It was the most terrifying tribulation recorded in the oldest of ancient texts, one that had existed only in their pages!
Legend had it that it descended only when something so defiant of heaven was born that it threatened the survival of the entire world!
Its power was enough to easily annihilate a true Great Emperor!
They had never dreamed that in their lifetimes, they would actually witness this taboo heavenly punishment that existed only in legend!
"Run!"
After a brief silence, the crowd erupted into chaos!
As if they had seen a ghost, everyone spared no Origin Blood Essence, pushing themselves to run faster than they ever had in their lives as they fled wildly in every direction!
They were terrified that if they ran too slowly, they would be caught up in even the slightest trace of karmic retribution from the World-Ending Heavenly Punishment!
If that happened, they would have nowhere to turn, not even to weep!
And just as they fled in a panic—
Crack!
A deafening boom, as if it could split the entire sky in two, erupted from the dark, inky clouds!
Then—
A terrifying bolt of lightning, thicker than a mountain and glowing an eerie purple, came crashing down. Like a spear in the hands of a heavenly god, it carried enough power to destroy everything as it struck toward Xiao Yang, who was fusing the divine sword below!
Rumble!
The Purple Divine Thunder of world-ending power moved at extreme speed, as if it had ignored the distance of space. In an instant, it appeared above Xiao Yang's head!
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