In an instant...
Cheng Buzheng had no time to think, not even time to turn back for a glance.
The instincts forged through years of bloody battles overrode all thought.
His body abruptly contracted, the space around him twisting and folding as his entire person seemed to evaporate into thin air.
By the narrowest of margins, he vanished from where he stood.
Almost at the exact instant his figure shifted...
That dark-red orb of light, condensed from Sha Minghong's fully charged power and concealing lethal Dao Wen, passed precisely through the patch of empty space where Cheng Buzheng had just been standing, carrying a silent aura of destruction.
There was no roar, no explosion.
Only an almost imperceptible ripple in space gently spread outward.
Where he had stood moments before, even the void had been silently pierced by that strike, leaving behind a fleeting yet bottomless black hole.
The next moment.
A thunderous roar suddenly erupted through the deathly silent world.
It did not come from the heavens, but from Sea Suppressing Immortal City below—a city crouching atop the vast sea, majestic as an inverted Kunlun Mountain—
That immortal city, tempered by ten thousand years of time, reinforced layer upon layer by countless formations, and said to be capable of withstanding a full-force strike from a Spirit Transformation cultivator, now emitted a violent rumble that shook the very soul.
Rumble!
The loud noise seemed ready to tear heaven and earth apart, sending the cloud layer churning and the gale-force winds sweeping backward.
Then—
Rumble, rumble!!
Successive Loud Noises burst forth like rolling thunder detonating in a chain, each one fiercer than the last.
Every tremor made the entire sea quake.
Even this stretch of heaven and earth seemed to resonate faintly.
At the very instant the roar erupted...
Endless, dazzling