The thousand-zhang treasure ship lurched violently.
Its hull listed severely to the left.
Purple Heaven Divine Thunder as thick as water vats turned into an unbroken barrage of blinding lightning pillars, crazily smashing into the treasure ship's dark formation barrier.
The barrier flickered violently, ripples like water spreading rapidly in every direction.
With every lightning strike, the hull let out a muffled boom.
"Steady yourselves! Everyone! Pour your true essence into the formation core!"
Mo Qianchou stood on the bow deck, roaring himself hoarse.
Both hands pressed tightly against the formation compass.
The true essence of a Half-step Dharma Aspect Realm expert surged forth without reservation, turning into tangible azure light that flowed into the compass.
On the deck, several thousand Myriad Beast Sect disciples sat cross-legged.
Their faces were flushed crimson.
Veins bulged across their foreheads.
True Qi became thick pillars of light that shot into the dragonbone Formation Eye at the bottom of the treasure ship.
Inside the cabins.
Tens of thousands of passengers were crammed together.
Some clung desperately to pillars, while others clawed at the gaps between the floorboards.
Terrified screams mixed with the explosions of thunder, deafening everyone.
This was the very heart of the Heavenly Chasm Thunder Pool.
Space was extraordinarily unstable.
The slightest misstep, and the violent spatial currents would grind the treasure ship into dust.
Suddenly.
Ahead.
The sea of purple lightning abruptly collapsed inward.
A void rift thousands of zhang long was forcibly torn open without warning by an incomparably terrifying brute force.
Fragments of space scattered in every direction like razor-sharp glass.
They sliced apart the surrounding lightning.
An enormous beast claw covered in bluish-black scales extended from the rift.
The claw was as large as a mountain.
Its five curved talons were like five Sky Pillar Giant Swords.
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