Rumble!
In an instant, the winds and clouds changed color. Dark as ink, the tribulation clouds pressed down over the sky, blotting out the sun. Bolts of lightning soared like giant dragons, and the thunder roared like war drums, deafening to the ears.
Crack—
Without the slightest prelude, a violet-black bolt of world-destroying lightning crashed down in an instant. It locked onto Shi Lan, seated cross-legged on the isolated island, and drew the entire Qiong Luo Realm into the tribulation clouds along with her.
The island evaporated in an instant, swallowed by the lightning. Then space shattered, torn apart by blades formed from lightning. In a flash, the Qiong Luo Realm plunged into darkness; the sun and moon dimmed, obscured by the world-destroying lightning surging in.
This was the first bolt of the World-Destroying Calamity. It tempered the small world born within the Heavenly Human Realm and helped martial artists refine their source vitality. After being washed by this bolt, the small world would undergo a transformation, becoming capable of nurturing life on its own and advancing toward a Small Thousand World.
But the power of this bolt was terrifying, far exceeding that of the World-Destroying Calamity faced by ordinary martial artists. It brimmed with the aura of annihilation. Mountains and rivers in the Qiong Luo Realm were overturned, and stretches of land extending hundreds of thousands of miles collapsed in an instant, reduced to dust beneath the lightning.
If the Qiong Luo Realm had not been so sparsely populated, this bolt would have left a trail of devastation and death.
Bathed in lightning, Shi Lan's robes had already turned to ash. A glow shimmered faintly across her body, and a trace of coldness flashed in her eyes.
The Qiong Luo Realm was, after all, a Great Thousand World. The