Boom--!!
The sky seemed to have been torn open by an invisible giant hand, silver-white lightning twisting and rolling like a wild dragon through the clouds before crashing viciously into the sea. Every flash nearly illuminated the entire island and the surrounding waters until they were as pale as day.
Rumble, rumble, rumble--!!!
Thunder followed in an endless succession. It was not an ordinary muffled rumble, but sounded as though some immortal god were pounding a colossal war drum in the heavens, shaking loose stones across the island and making people's eardrums buzz while their hearts nearly leaped from their chests.
Crash--!
Boom--!
Crash--!!
Boom--!!
The sea roared, violently slamming into the cliffs along the island from time to time.
The waves were huge and fierce. Their sound was not like ordinary surf, but like the furious howls of hundreds or thousands of sea beasts roaring at once.
Looking out over the sea, one saw the pitch-black waters whipped up by the gale to heights of more than ten zhang, transforming into moving walls of water that crashed viciously against the shore before retreating in disarray with spray and silt. Then they rolled back again with even greater force, repeating the cycle as though they would never stop until they had smashed the entire island to pieces.
Whoooosh--!
As for the wind's shrill howl, there was even less need to mention it.
That terrifying whistle nearly pierced the eardrums. The curtains of rain it whipped up no longer fell straight down, but swept almost horizontally across the land before pouring through the countless windows of the island's buildings.
At that moment, heaven and earth seemed overturned, and it was impossible to tell where the sea ended and the sky began.
Looking into the distance, the pitch-black sea had long since