Just as the newly advanced Heavenly Temple god was proudly prostrating himself before the Golden Body Giant Spirit holding up his body, the sky above the Eastern Subcontinent suddenly caved in. The entire sky collapsed downward, and a patch of black, dark space emerged from the void. Tens of thousands of black giant towers slowly rose from the collapsed void. Countless gods of the Many-Armed Secret Devil Clan and other divine clans gathered around the towers, chanting incantations in unison as they hurled incomparably vicious curses at the Heavenly Temple gods and their believers.
The words of the curses transformed into fist-sized black runes visible to the naked eye, filling the sky like a swarm of maddened hornets. Sinister, chilling air sprang out of nowhere, and a blizzard of goose-feather snow suddenly fell across the Eastern Subcontinent. Yet the flakes were black, densely packed with innumerable tiny curse runes too small to see. In no more than the blink of an eye, the entire Eastern Subcontinent was blanketed in thick snow.
The void congealed, time was shackled, and the flowers, grass, and trees of the Eastern Subcontinent were frozen solid in an instant by the cold, all transformed into pitch-black, translucent shards of ice. Every leaf and blade of grass was sharp as a knife. Black snowflakes continuously melted into the leaves and stems, and with each flake absorbed, the piercing edge radiating from them grew ever more unstoppable.
The Heavenly Temple army halted its advance. It was not that they did not wish to continue, but that they had no choice but to stop.
Every flower and tree, every blade and leaf before them had become a deadly weapon. Quite a few Heavenly Temple believers who carelessly stepped into the grass or woods were silently sliced into pieces by