However, Zong Shen quickly noticed a new change.
The atmosphere atop the walls shifted with it.
The reverence on the faces of Blue Creek Forest's people froze in place like the surface of a frozen lake, only to shatter completely the next instant.
Fear!
An even more intense fear than when they had witnessed the beast tide seized their hearts alongside bone-chilling cold.
A new anomaly was occurring upon that vast scorched earth, which had been thoroughly plowed by the [Elemental Disturbance Generator] and where, in theory, even the fundamental structure of the elements had already collapsed into disorder.
There was no earth-shaking roar, much less any glow from an energy eruption.
There was only an indescribable pressure spreading forth from the void.
The charred earth, the frozen ice sculptures, the scattered remnants of energy, even the dust floating in the air—all of it came to a standstill at that moment.
It was as if time itself had frozen solid here.
Then, everyone saw a speck of dark golden light rise from the scorched earth.
The light was not particularly dazzling, yet it carried a weight and ancient aura capable of piercing the soul.
Moreover, the light swiftly expanded and stretched, transforming into an enormous phantom hundreds of meters tall.
This phantom was not corporeal, and its outline was rather blurry, but it could vaguely be made out as a humanoid beast.
It wore crude armor made of fragments of stars and ancient rock.
A pair of massive horns that seemed capable of piercing the heavens grew from its head.
In its hand, it held a huge axe likewise formed from light and shadow, one that looked crude and savage.
The phantom's face was entirely indistinct. Only two scarlet lights slowly brightened where its eye sockets should have been, like