Deep within the Forbidden Sea!
A certain stretch of heaven and earth was completely dominated by violent lightning.
Heavy black clouds hung low, overturning the sky, layer upon layer sealing off all directions.
Sharp flashes of lightning raced and exploded through the gaps in the cloud layer, hissing piercingly.
Boundless thunderstorms raged unchecked, annihilating all life, turning this airspace into a Forbidden Land that struck terror into the hearts of all who spoke of it.
As though it would devour the entire world the very next second.
Just then...
Two figures with Auras so obscure they had reached the utmost extreme, all their sharpness utterly restrained, silently emerged from a rift in the void and hovered high beneath the thunderclouds.
Unless one deliberately sensed for them, even the laws of heaven and earth would overlook them.
Indeed!
Within this heaven and earth, apart from the incarnations of Sha Minghong and Cheng Buzheng, who had just sworn the Heart Demon Great Oath and temporarily set aside their mortal enmity, there was no one else capable of such exquisitely subtle concealment, of hiding within a thunderstorm without stirring the slightest ripple in heaven and earth.
The instant they appeared...
Cheng Buzheng slowly raised his eyes, his gaze piercing through layers of clouds stretching for thousands of miles.
As far as the eye could see, thunderclouds piled upon one another, locking down the vault of heaven. Silver-purple lightning crisscrossed and roamed without cease, every arc carrying a frigid killing intent sufficient to tear apart all things. The entire world felt oppressive and stifling, with murderous intent lurking everywhere.
BOOM!
BOOM! BOOM!!
Successive peals of thunder suddenly exploded, shaking the eight wastelands and four extremes.
It was as though heaven and earth had sounded the drums of battle.
Thick, terrifying bolts of heavenly lightning,